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pokerlike

pokerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).

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 pokerlike

comparativemore pokerlike
superlativemost pokerlike
alternative formpoker-like

Origin of pokerlike

From poker + -like.

Questions about pokerlike

What does pokerlike mean?
Pokerlike means resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).
What part of speech is pokerlike?
Pokerlike is an adjective.

Words near pokerlike in the dictionary

  1. pokering
  2. pokering up
  3. pokerish
  4. pokerishly
  5. pokerishness
  6. pokerlike
  7. pokeroot
  8. pokeroots
  9. pokerounce
  10. pokers
  11. pokers up

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