POKER DICE Definition & Meaning

poker dice

noun

(used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
(usually used with a singular verb) any of various gambling games played with from three to six such dice.

poker dice

noun

a dice marked on its six faces with the pictures of the playing cards from ace to nine
a gambling game, based on poker hands, played with five such dice

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of poker dice¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Trying to call this is a bit like a game I used to play with my kids, poker dice, where you roll five dice and it is completely random what you end up with.

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It was three days ago that Harvey had won two hundred francs from me shaking poker dice in the New York Bar.

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So we rolled poker dice out of a deep leather dice-cup.

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The Stars and Stripes belonged to whites; for Black Americans, the song proposed a banner of social and moral depravity decorated with a possum gnawing a pork chop and a chicken with poker dice for eyes over a banjo and a slip to play the numbers.

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Poker dice, for the benefit of the uninitiate, have the Queen on one side in blue, like the Queen in a pack of cards, the King in red and the Knave in black.

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