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sheila | poker |

As a proper noun sheila

is or sheila can be .

As a noun poker is

poker (card game).

sheila

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A woman.
  • * 2009 , Rosemary Van Den Berg, Clogs and Bare Feet , page 208,
  • He was a real gentleman and although he never asked any personal questions as to why ‘a couple of sheilas ’ was hitch hiking to Perth, he said he was glad of the company.
  • * 2010 , Deke Rivers, The Singer and His Songs , page 22,
  • “You know I counted no less than fifty-five sheilas out on the street today, all screaming when you guys played.”
  • * 2011 , Kate Shayler, Burnished: Burnside Life Stories , page 8,
  • I definitely didn?t think about getting married. I was real scared of sheilas back then.

    Coordinate terms

    * bloke, bruce (Australian)

    Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * See

    Anagrams

    * Australian slang

    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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