stud poker
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6.3
- noun
- /stʌd ˈpoʊkər/
- Jargon
:
póker de stud
- He explained the rules of stud poker to the newcomers before they started playing.
Draw poker, stud poker with some cards revealed.
- Draw poker, stud poker with some cards revealed.
Examples
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“Hunting is as much a game as stud poker, only the limits are higher.”
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Last night, there were seven men sitting at the base of those stairs playing stud poker.
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- Yeah, a little stud poker.
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Besides, he's behind in the big stud poker game at Lolo.
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"Stud poker."
Fiction book (1998) -
We played stud poker, draw poker, brag, and blackjack.
Fiction book (1997) -
High-card harry, the tinhorn gambler, dealing stud poker:
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At the party, everyone was excited to gather around the table for a game of stud poker.
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After a long night of playing stud poker, she won a few hands and celebrated with her friends.
Synonyms
15
8.7
A poker game with some cards face up and betting after each card
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5.8
A poker game where each player gets five face down cards and cannot take any new ones
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'stud' names a specific poker variant (dealing some cards face up) and 'poker' names the card game; a learner who knows both senses can compositionally infer that 'stud poker' is the poker variant described. The formation follows common English compounding patterns (type-of-X), so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Stud poker may get its name from stud, a word for a prized horse kept for breeding. Like that horse being shown, stud poker puts some cards 'face up' for everyone to see, so the name came to mean this kind of game.