full house
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]full house (plural full houses)
- (poker) A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
- 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live:
- This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.
- (rugby union) A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
- A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
- 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:
- But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre.
Hypernyms
[edit]- hand (poker sense)
Hyponyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: フルハウス (furu hausu)
- → Portuguese: full house
- → Russian: фул-ха́ус (ful-xáus)
Translations
[edit]three of a kind and a pair
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maximum capacity
See also
[edit]Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text) | |||||
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high card | pair | two pair | three of a kind | straight | |
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flush | full house | four of a kind | straight flush | royal flush |
Adjective
[edit]full house (not comparable)
- (firearms) Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.
- American Handgunner, Heavyweight Bullets In The .357 Magnum
- An occasional pig, and not so occasional ram, would quiver and then settle back down without toppling, even when hit dead center with a full-house load with a 158-gr. jacketed .357 Magnum bullet.
- American Handgunner, Heavyweight Bullets In The .357 Magnum
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English full house.
Noun
[edit]full house m (plural full houses)
- (poker) full house (three of a kind and a pair)
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