full house

full house

noun Poker.
a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.
Also called full hand.


Origin:
1885–90
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full house
 
n
1.  poker a hand with three cards of the same value and another pair
2.  a theatre, etc, filled to capacity
3.  (in bingo, etc) the set of numbers needed to win

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