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pokering up

pokering up is the present participle and gerund 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 pokering up

What is pokering up the present participle and gerund of?
Pokering up is the present participle and gerund of poker up.

Words near pokering up in the dictionary

  1. pokerface
  2. pokerfaced
  3. pokerholic
  4. pokerholics
  5. pokering
  6. pokering up
  7. pokerish
  8. pokerishly
  9. pokerishness
  10. pokerlike
  11. pokeroot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pokering 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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