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poker-faced

adj

Etymology

From the attitude necessary in the game of poker, since one is ill-advised to reveal delight at being dealt a winning hand lest other players decline to bet (or contrariwise, show disappointment at a poor hand if one is inclined to bluff).

Definitions

  1. Wearing a poker face

    Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral in facial expression; giving nothing away.

    • John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain the rules.
    • Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton.

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