full house

noun

Poker.

1. a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.

full house

noun

1. poker a hand with three cards of the same value and another pair

2. a theatre, etc, filled to capacity

3. (in bingo, etc) the set of numbers needed to win

Word History and Origins

Origin of full house¹

First recorded in 1885–90