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poker-like

poker-like is the alternative form of pokerlike.

Meaning of pokerlike

Adjective

pokerlike (comparative more pokerlike, superlative most pokerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).
    • An animal caught off balance at the onset may fall to the ground with limbs fixed pokerlike in extension...1962, James Robert Maitland Innes, Leon Z Saunders, Comparative neuropathology
  2. Resembling or characteristic of the card game of poker.
    • The original Battlestar Galactica featured triad, a basketball/football hybrid; pyramid, a pokerlike game; and pets […]2008, Tiffany Potter, C W Marshall, Cylons in America: critical studies in Battlestar Galactica

Forms of poker-like

comparativemore poker-like
superlativemost poker-like

Questions about poker-like

What is poker-like the alternative form of?
Poker-like is the alternative form of pokerlike.

Words near poker-like in the dictionary

  1. poker plants
  2. poker run
  3. poker runs
  4. poker up
  5. poker-faced
  6. poker-like
  7. pokerclack
  8. pokerclacks
  9. pokered
  10. pokered up
  11. pokerface

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poker-like (page history and authors); pokerlike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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