full house

full house

English

Noun

full house (plural full houses)

1. (poker) A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
   • 1954, Philip Larkin, Continuing to Live

     This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise — / Ah, if the game were poker, yes, / You might discard them, draw a full house! / But it's chess.

2. A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.

Hypernyms

• hand (poker sense)

Hyponyms

• overfull
• underfull

Descendants

• → Japanese: フルハウス (furu hausu)
• → Portuguese: full house
• → Russian: фул-ха́ус (ful-xáus)

Translations

three of a kind and a pair

Armenian: ֆուլ հաուս (ful haus) Chinese: Mandarin: 葫芦 (zh) , 葫蘆／葫芦 (zh) (húlu) Danish: fuldt hus n Finnish: täyskäsi (fi) French: full (fr) m, main pleine (fr) f German: Full House (de) n Greek: φουλ (el) n (foul) Icelandic: fullt hús n Italian: full (it) m Japanese: フルハウス (furuhausu) Maori: pū kotahi Polish: ful (pl) m Portuguese: full house (pt) m Romanian: ful (ro) n Russian: фул-ха́ус m (ful-xáus) Swedish: kåk (sv) c

maximum capacity

Chinese: Mandarin: 滿座／满座 (zh) (mǎnzuò) Danish: fuldt hus n Finnish: talo täynnä German: Full House (de) n Italian: pienone (it) m, tutto esaurito m Japanese: 満員 (ja) (まんいん, man'in), 満席 (まんせき, manseki) Portuguese: lotação esgotada f Russian: аншла́г (ru) m (anšlág) (a successful show) Turkish: kapalı gişe (tr)

See also

Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)
high card	pair	two pair	three of a kind	straight
flush	full house	four of a kind	straight flush	royal flush

Adjective

full house (not comparable)

1. (firearms) Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.
   • American Handgunner, Heavyweight Bullets In The .357 Magnum

     An occasional pig, and not so occasional ram, would quiver and then settle back down without toppling, even when hit dead center with a full-house load with a 158-gr. jacketed .357 Magnum bullet.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English full house.

Noun

full house m (plural full houses)

1. (poker) full house (three of a kind and a pair)