poker
poker
/ˈpəʊkə(r)/
1 uncountable a card game for two or more people, in which the players bet on the values of the cards they hold 2 countable a metal stick for moving or breaking up coal in a fire Word Origin
sense 1 mid 19th cent.: of US origin; perhaps related to German pochen ‘to brag’, Pochspiel ‘bragging game’.