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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Full house is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
For many years, a full house has meant that the theater company orders pizza
  for everyone.
They were the consecrated monsters whose names drew a full house, no matter how
  flimsy the play or how paltry the production.
After a bill is heard by a committee, the committee will report its
  recommendation to the full house.
There was a full house again, which was good, and the evening was a success.
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