pokerlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adjectivepokerlike (comparative more pokerlike, superlative most pokerlike)

comparative more pokerlike · superlative most pokerlike · alternative poker-like

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).

    An animal caught off balance at the onset may fall to the ground with limbs fixed pokerlike in extension...

    1962, James Robert Maitland Innes, Leon Z Saunders, Comparative neuropathology
  2. Resembling or characteristic of the card game of poker.

    The original Battlestar Galactica featured triad, a basketball/football hybrid; pyramid, a pokerlike game; and pets […]

    2008, Tiffany Potter, C W Marshall, Cylons in America: critical studies in Battlestar Galactica

Origin

From poker + -like.

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APA

pokerlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokerlike

MLA

“pokerlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokerlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pokerlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pokerlike.

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