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Blackjack vs Poker - What's the difference?

blackjack | poker |

As nouns the difference between blackjack and poker

is that blackjack is (card games) a common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over while poker is a metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick or poker can be any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game or poker can be (us|colloquial) any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

As a verb blackjack

is to strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

blackjack

Alternative forms

* black jack, black-jack

Noun

(en noun)
  • (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.
  • (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
  • The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger). In older literature sometimes spelled "black jack".
  • A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered instrument loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings.
  • Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens , such as , in the family Compositae.
  • See also

    * baccarat * bludgeon * cosh * pontoon * truncheon * twenty-one

    Verb

  • To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.
  • poker

    English

    Etymology 1

    (poke).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
  • One who pokes.
  • A kind of duck, the pochard.
  • Synonyms
    * (fireplace utensil) firestick, stoker

    Etymology 2

    American English, perhaps from first element of (etyl) Pochspiel, from (etyl) pochen, perhaps from (etyl) poque

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
  • (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
  • Derived terms
    * poker chip * poker face * poker-faced
    See also
    * three card brag

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) , and English puck.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
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