Suck out

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of winning a hand by sucking out. slang

    "Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky."

Verb
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, out.
  2. 2
    remove by suction wordnet
  3. 3
    To win a hand, usually on a showdown, by hitting a card on the turn or river to make a better hand than one's opponent, even though one had a significantly inferior hand on the flop. slang

    "Poker is not, nor should it be, a passionless, colorless, characterless game; there's too much at stake: money and reputation, perhaps foremost. Miraculous suck-out victories and tragic suck-out beats will always engender a response, good and bad, classy and tacky."

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