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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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of full house1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Had George Furbank been fit, Saints would surely be only one slot away from a full house.

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For England, a full house of victories over rugby's big three southern hemisphere sides was always a big ask.

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Gachagua’s trial is being conducted before the full house of the Senate after it abandoned a process to set up an 11-member committee to investigate the charges.

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It began with blue flags flapping from the dugout roofs and blue rags raised and waved through the rollicking full house.

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"It was a full house but we managed fine, it was grand," she said.

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