Dictionary

full house en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.
   • American Handgunner, Heavyweight Bullets In The .357 Magnum An occasional pig, and not so occasional ram, would quiver and then settle back down without toppling, even when hit dead center with a full-house load with a 158-gr. jacketed .357 Magnum bullet.

full house en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
   • This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess. 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live:
2. (qualifier:rugby union) A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
3. A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
   • But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre. 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:
4. (broadly) (theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.

Forms

Descendants

full house · фулл-ха́ус · 풀 하우스 · フルハウス

Hypernyms

hand

Hyponyms

underfull · overfull

Synonyms

packed house

Translations (33)

ko 풀 하우스 (three of a kind and a pair) · cmn 葫蘆 /葫芦 (three of a kind and a pair) · fi talo täynnä (maximum capacity) · pl ful (three of a kind and a pair) · sv kåk (three of a kind and a pair) · mi pū kotahi (three of a kind and a pair) · cmn 滿場 /满场 (maximum capacity) · ja 満席 (maximum capacity) · el φουλ (three of a kind and a pair) · pl ful (maximum capacity) · de Full House (three of a kind and a pair) · hy ֆուլ հաուս (three of a kind and a pair) · da fuldt hus (maximum capacity) · tr ful (three of a kind and a pair) · ja フルハウス (three of a kind and a pair) · tr kapalı gişe (maximum capacity) · cmn 滿座 /满座 (maximum capacity) · it full (three of a kind and a pair) · fr full (three of a kind and a pair) · fi täyskäsi (three of a kind and a pair) · is fullt hús (three of a kind and a pair) · fr main pleine (three of a kind and a pair) · de Full House (maximum capacity) · ro ful (three of a kind and a pair) · pt full house (three of a kind and a pair) · pt lotação esgotada (maximum capacity) · ru аншла́г (maximum capacity) · da fuldt hus (three of a kind and a pair) · ja 満員 (maximum capacity) · ru фул-ха́ус (three of a kind and a pair) · bg фул хаус (three of a kind and a pair) · it tutto esaurito (maximum capacity) · it pienone (maximum capacity)