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suck out en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (slang) An instance of winning a hand by sucking out.
    • Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky. 2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126:

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suck-out alternative lexicographic
suck outs Number=Plur lexicographic

suck out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, out.
  2. (slang) To win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop.
    • Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky. 2008, Lee Robert Schreiber, Poker as Life: 101 Lessons from the World's Greatest Game, page 126:

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sucking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sucks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sucked out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sucked out Tense=Past lexicographic
suck-out alternative lexicographic