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hole card

noun

  1. Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
  2. something held in reserve until it can be used to advantage.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hole card1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

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Example Sentences

He couldn't, at any time, actually read in the man's mind what his "hole card" was, he found.

Two players called the bet and he flipped over his hole card—it was a seven-spot and again he won.

Camillo Bill studied the cards, tilted his hole card and glanced at its corner, and raised Brent two thousand.

At length the other turned down his cards in token of surrender, and with a laugh Brent turned his hole card face up.

He turned over his hole card which was a deuce, and again Brent laughed and flipped his hole card over.

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