cold deck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hand where two or more players have very strong hands and one or more of them loses a lot of chips despite the strength of the hand(s) involved.
  2. A pre-shuffled deck of cards substituted for the real deck in order to cheat.
verb
  1. To inflict a cold deck situation on an opponent.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cold deck.wav

Word forms

cold deck cold decks cold decking cold decked

Etymology

From the metaphor that the deck (of cards) is cold, in the sense "heartless, emotionless".

Synonyms

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