Contextualizebeta

poker up

verb

Definitions

  1. To become expressionless

    To become expressionless; to put on a poker face.

    • When his mama had ventured in the most amiable way to remark on her occasional free and easy ways, he had pokered up at once and declared that it was her very lack of pretension which he found most engaging.
    • Wicked as the devil one minute, and then pokering up like a Methodist minister the next.
    • After nearly choking, Joe cocked a brow over the edge of his coffee cup. “Me?” He pokered up in affront. “I haven't done a damn thing.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poker up. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA