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pokers up

pokers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pokers up

What is pokers up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pokers up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of poker up.

Words near pokers up in the dictionary

  1. pokerlike
  2. pokeroot
  3. pokeroots
  4. pokerounce
  5. pokers
  6. pokers up
  7. pokerwork
  8. pokes
  9. pokes about
  10. pokes along
  11. pokes around

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