suck out

present singular third person sucks out · participle present sucking out · participle past sucked out · past sucked out · alternative suck-out

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, out.
2. slangcard gamesTo win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.

   Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky.

   2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126

plural suck outs · alternative suck-out

1. slangcard gamesAn instance of winning a hand by sucking out.

   Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky.

   2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126