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full house
n.
A poker hand containing three of a kind and a pair, ranked above a flush and below four of a kind.
full house
n
1. (Group Games / Card Games) Poker a hand with three cards of the same value and another pair
2. (Performing Arts / Theatre) a theatre, etc., filled to capacity
3. (Group Games / Games, other than specified) (in bingo, etc.) the set of numbers needed to win
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Noun1.full housefull house - a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair
poker hand - the 5 cards held in a game of poker
Translations
full house n (Theatre) → il tutto esaurito
full house n (Theatre) → il tutto esaurito


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But as Nature often exhibits some of her best performances to a very full house, so will the behaviour of her spectators no less admit the above-mentioned comparison than that of her actors.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Other singers are there, to be sure, to whom only the full house maketh the voice soft, the hand eloquent, the eye expressive, the heart wakeful:-- those do I not resemble.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
I don't know how many of the fine people at the Leas are coming with him: he sends directions for all the best bedrooms to be prepared; and the library and drawing-rooms are to be cleaned out; I am to get more kitchen hands from the George Inn, at Millcote, and from wherever else I can; and the ladies will bring their maids and the gentlemen their valets: so we shall have a full house of it.
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