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pokered up

pokered up is the simple past and past participle of poker up.

Meaning of poker up

Verb

poker up (third-person singular simple present pokers up, present participle pokering up, simple past and past participle pokered up)

  1. To become expressionless; to put on a poker face.
    • When his mama had ventured in the most amiable way to remark on her occasional free and easy ways, he had pokered up at once and declared that it was her very lack of pretension which he found most engaging.1984, Sheila Walsh, The Diamond Waterfall, page 153

Questions about pokered up

What is pokered up the simple past and past participle of?
Pokered up is the simple past and past participle of poker up.

Words near pokered up in the dictionary

  1. poker-faced
  2. poker-like
  3. pokerclack
  4. pokerclacks
  5. pokered
  6. pokered up
  7. pokerface
  8. pokerfaced
  9. pokerholic
  10. pokerholics
  11. pokering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pokered up (page history and authors); poker up (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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