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[change]- Poker is a group of card games that involve trying to get a good hand of cards. Usually there is some betting, and people give or take cards to try to build a better hand.
- The three of us play poker every Friday night, and the loser buys drinks.
- (countable) A poker, which people also call a fire poker or fire iron, is something people use in a fire. They use it to move around the ashes so that the fire keeps burning well, and they use it to move coals back to the middle of the fire.
- The fire is dying down, so can you hand me the poker?