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full house

full house noun: a hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.

Noun

full house (plural full houses)

  1. A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
    • 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.1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live
  2. (rugby union) A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
  3. A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
    • 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.2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31
  4. (broadly) (theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.
    Synonyms:
    packed house

Adjective

full house (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Synonyms of full house

Forms of full house

pluralfull houses

Questions about full house

What does full house mean?
Full house means a hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
What part of speech is full house?
Full house can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of full house?
The plural of full house is full houses.

Words near full house in the dictionary

  1. full forwards
  2. full frontal
  3. full frontal nudity
  4. full functor
  5. full functors
  6. full house
  7. full houses
  8. full immersion
  9. full infinitive
  10. full infinitives
  11. full Irish

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