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hole card
noun
- Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- something held in reserve until it can be used to advantage.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hole card1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Example Sentences
He couldn't, at any time, actually read in the man's mind what his "hole card" was, he found.
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Two players called the bet and he flipped over his hole card—it was a seven-spot and again he won.
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Camillo Bill studied the cards, tilted his hole card and glanced at its corner, and raised Brent two thousand.
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At length the other turned down his cards in token of surrender, and with a laugh Brent turned his hole card face up.
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He turned over his hole card which was a deuce, and again Brent laughed and flipped his hole card over.
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