Hole Card
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Our hole card is Delta / Blue Light, a group of hand-picked commandos waiting around outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Elizabeth Lowell REMEMBER SUMMER (2001). The synonym 'pocket cards' is typically used in community card games. EXAMPLE: 'We were playing a heads-up game of 7-card stud. I had an Ace in the door but my hole cards were rags. I decided to raise. Hole card - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums.
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hole card
1. In poker, a card dealt face down to a player. It is common in stud poker for the player to receive a number of hole cards.
2. A secret advantage. Just when everyone thought Randy was going to lose the competition, he used his hole card and pulled into first place.
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Hole Card Confessions
a hole card
mainly AMERICAN
A hole card is an advantage that you keep secret until you are ready to use it. The fact that I knew where she was and had in my possession a boxful of evidence were my only two remaining hole cards. Note: In five card `stud' poker, the `hole' card is the only card which is dealt to you face down so that the other players cannot see it.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
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hole card
n.1. A card in poker that is dealt face-down and that the holder is not obliged to reveal before the showdown.
2. Informal Something held in reserve until it can be used advantageously.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
hole′ card`
n.
1. a card dealt facedown during the first round in stud poker.
2. something held in reserve until it can be used to advantage.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
| Noun | 1. | hole card - any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company |
| 2. | hole card - (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown stud poker, stud - poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt playing card - one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games |
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