pokerlike

English

Etymology

From poker +‎ -like.

Adjective

pokerlike (comparative more pokerlike, superlative most pokerlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a poker (metal rod).
   • 1962, James Robert Maitland Innes, Leon Z Saunders, Comparative neuropathology:

     An animal caught off balance at the onset may fall to the ground with limbs fixed pokerlike in extension...

2. Resembling or characteristic of the card game of poker.
   • 2008, Tiffany Potter, C W Marshall, Cylons in America: critical studies in Battlestar Galactica:

     The original Battlestar Galactica featured triad, a basketball/football hybrid; pyramid, a pokerlike game; and pets […]