pokerlike

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English

Etymology

From poker +‎ -like.

Adjective

pokerlike (comparative more pokerlike, superlative most pokerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).
    • 1962, James Robert Maitland Innes, Leon Z Saunders, Comparative neuropathology:
      An animal caught off balance at the onset may fall to the ground with limbs fixed pokerlike in extension...
  2. Resembling or characteristic of the card game of poker.
    • 2008, Tiffany Potter, C W Marshall, Cylons in America: critical studies in Battlestar Galactica:
      The original Battlestar Galactica featured triad, a basketball/football hybrid; pyramid, a pokerlike game; and pets []