Definition of Hole card

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

Generic synonyms: Assets

2. Noun. (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown.
Category relationships: Stud, Stud Poker
Generic synonyms: Playing Card

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 (current term)
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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