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You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!
Jason Gedrick

Meaning of "poker-faced" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POKER-FACED

poker-faced play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POKER-FACED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Poker-Faced is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POKER-FACED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of poker-faced in the English dictionary

The definition of poker-faced in the dictionary is having a deliberately expressionless face.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POKER-FACED

poke
poke bonnet
poke borak at someone
poke fun at
poke mullock at
poke one´s nose into
pokeberries
pokeberry
pokeful
pokelogan
poker
poker dice
poker face
poker machine
pokerish
pokerishly
pokeroot
pokerwork
pokeweed
pokey

WORDS THAT END LIKE POKER-FACED

baby-faced
barefaced
bold-faced
defaced
double-faced
fresh-faced
full-faced
hard-faced
long-faced
melamine-faced
open-faced
pale-faced
po-faced
red-faced
round-faced
shamefaced
shitfaced
spaced
straight-faced
two-faced
white-faced

Synonyms and antonyms of poker-faced in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «poker-faced» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POKER-FACED

Find out the translation of poker-faced to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of poker-faced from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «poker-faced» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

面无表情
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

con cara de póquer
570 millions of speakers

English

poker-faced
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पोकर का सामना करना पड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لعبة البوكر الوجه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

непроницаемым лицом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poker- faced
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জুজু মুখবিশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poker face
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Poker-faced
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pokerface
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポーカーフェイスの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포커 얼굴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Poker-faced
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xi mặt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போக்கர் முகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोकरचा-चेहर्याचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

poker suratlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

da viso impassibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poker- faced
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непроникним обличчям
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- poker cu care se confruntă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόκερ -που αντιμετωπίζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poker -faced
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

poker -faced
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

poker -faced
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of poker-faced

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POKER-FACED»

The term «poker-faced» is normally little used and occupies the 124.903 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POKER-FACED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about poker-faced

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QUOTES WITH «POKER-FACED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word poker-faced.
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Jason Gedrick
You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POKER-FACED»

Discover the use of poker-faced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to poker-faced and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects
Q0. Poker-Faced. How it looks overall: An audience member who likes poker shuffles the deck, and handpicks five cards for a good poker hand. You show them around, one by one, making comments such as, “A pair of Tens and a pair of ...
Colm Mulcahy, 2013
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Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Children and Adolescents
We have called this being poker-faced (Field, 1982). At the other extreme, approximately 20% of children are extremely extraverted, or wear their heart on their sleeve. Approximately 60% of newborns and children lie somewhere in the middle ...
Michel Hersen, Alan M. Gross, 2008
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Taking Risks, QBE 1886-1994: A History of the QBE Insurance ...
'ONE. SUSPECTS. THE. PRESENCE. OF. HIDDEN. COMPENSATIONS. IN. THE. POKER-FACED. BALANCE. SHEET'. While the insurance world, as 1970 began, was adjusting to the dramatic changes in civil aviation that came with the ...
John Gunn, 1995
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Becoming Human: New Poems
POKER-FACED. Was I twelve? I had just lied to father— mother challenged me later as we waited at a light and the 3rd. Avenue El shook overhead, not to say I had done wrong but ask how I did so well. Some truth had to be withheld from ...
Lance Lee, 2001
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Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion, and ...
Supplement. Poker-faced. Revealing. Nothing. Martin. Iddon. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Ecclesiastes 3:20 Elle, défunte nue en le miroir, encor Que, dan l'oubli fermé par le cadre, se fixe De scintillations ...
Martin Iddon, Melanie L. Marshall, 2014
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Weekly World News
Poker-faced Phil Hellmuth Jr. whipped two- time series champ Johnny Chan in the last hand at a Las Vegas casino to win $755,000. "This is absolutely fantastic. I thought I was dreaming for a moment there," said Hellmuth of Madison, Wis.
7
Irish Heroes and Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of ...
Keaton later needed that "poker-faced inscrutability" as his stock plummeted in the 1930s. No long the raging star of the silent screen, Keaton was relegated to writing gags for such acts as the Marx Brothers as his movie career in the "talkies"  ...
John Bartimole, 2004
8
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy ...
The average citizen, he once remarked, “is a victim of civilization whose ideal is the unbotherable, poker-faced man and the attractive, unruffled woman.”27 Disney's revulsion against the poker-faced man and the unruffled woman echoed  ...
Eric Avila, 2004
9
LIFE
CLOSE-UP. /. NICHOLAS. KATZENBACH. IS. A. CALM. ENFORCER. Poker- faced. Lawman. on. the. Spot. With this shirt, good looks are a snap: Arrow Paddock. At White House conference Attorney General Katzenbach and the President ...
10
Farce and Farcical Elements
Instead, Jesus is poker-faced and unbending, literally unbending as he declines to bow his knee to Herod or even to incline his head. The audience of course has seen this divine unwillingness to acknowledge worldly powers before, when ...
Wim N. M. Hüsken, Konrad Schoell, Leif Søndergaard, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POKER-FACED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term poker-faced is used in the context of the following news items.
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League: Melbourne ride wave of euphoria to victory
Poker-faced Dragons coach Paul McGregor was ropeable after the officials disallowed Nightingale's try in the 25th minute when Marshall's ... «Hawke's Bay Today, Jul 15»
2
Musings: What's expected when dining out?
#More than likely we do not want poker-faced order takers. We do not desire to be ignored when we first enter the door. We do not want our ... «jacksonprogress-argus, Jul 15»
3
Ruth review: Dance troupe present precise depiction of power struggle
Melanie Lane is cold and commanding – a poker-faced torturer – except when she thaws into relative warmth, just briefly. James Andrews ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
Political Horizons: On finances, Bobby Jindal counts at-bats as …
Notoriously poker-faced, the analysts asked few questions and gave away no tells.) Jindal added his two-bits on the campaign trail and on ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
5
Wet Hot American prequel worthy of a beloved cult flop
Given the poker-faced ridiculousness of Wet Hot (this is a franchise in which toxic ooze transforms a man into a sentient can of mixed ... «Macleans.ca, Jul 15»
6
Private Sydney: Housewives may add to the cast, for Real
... her trademark bullet-proof hair, poker-faced interior decorator Lydia Schiavello, property developer-turned-herbal tea providore Janet Roach, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
7
'Last Comic Standing': Norm Macdonald Helps a Show That Needs It
The comedians were satisfyingly all over the place, ranging from poker-faced observational humor to wacky physical comedy. My favorite was ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
8
Anniversary Games day two
... I do, I think she'd like to be quicker than 23.49 but I think she's had a solid meeting overall. With regards to Beijing, she was very poker-faced. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
9
Jess Spiring lets daughters see her (and my family and friends) stark …
'Um, when you're a teenager,' and, 'Yep, I know,' were my poker-faced replies despite howling inside. Jess feels that letting her daughters see ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
'Bangistan' is a poker-faced comedy with extraordinary situations …
Lauren Gottlieb · Directory; Search+. Advertisement. 'Bangistan' is a poker-faced comedy with extraordinary situations, says Riteish Deshmukh «Nowrunning, Jul 15»

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