Lexic.us

Definition of Hole card

1. Noun. Any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously.

2. Noun. (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown.

Definition of Hole card

1. Noun. (poker chiefly in the plural) A playing card, dealt face down, that the holder need not reveal until the showdown ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) Something held in reserve, or concealed, until it is useful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hole Card

holds back holds fire holds off holds out holds true holds up holdup holdup man holdups hole

hole-and-corner hole-and-corner(a) hole-in-corner hole-in-the-wall hole-in-the-walls hole card hole cards hole in one hole in retina hole in the ground

hole out hole punch hole punches hole state hole up holeable holed holed out holed up holeless

Literary usage of Hole card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Celebrate Life: A Guide for Planning All Night Alcohol & Drug-Free edited by Sharon Murphy (1992)
"After ah" the Players' hands are completed, the Dealer turns his hole card face up and announces his total. If he has a Blackjack (a two card total of 21), ..."

2. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"PIN-hole card FOR VIEWING NEAR OBJECTS. are shown which did not appear at a greater distance. One of the best methods of trying this experiment is to use ..."

3. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1889)
"Is there any need of dating borrower's card if you have your pigeon-hole card dated ? Mr. LARNED. — But this card represents twenty borrowers. ..."

4. A Text-book on the Elements of Physics: For High Schools and Academies by Alfred Payson Gage (1882)
"Prick a pin-hole card, place an eye near the hole, and look at a pin about 20cm distant. Then bring the pin slowly toward the eye, and the dimensions of the ..."

5. Rawhide Rawlins Stories by Charles Marion Russell (1921)
"Zack's standin' pretty close, for all the time they're talkin' he's on to Bowies' hole-card. He knows this hog-leg that's hangin' on Bowies' ..."

6. Bunch-grass and Blue-joint by Frank Bird Linderman (1921)
"The story don't tell what he said to his dear When he wakened hog-tied—it seems kinder queer— His hair was his hole-card, you see, an' its length Had ..."

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