List of slang names for poker hands

Many hands have slang names in poker. Some examples:

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• Dead Man's Hand: Two pair, aces and eights. This is the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed, and plays a relatively wide cultural role.
• Pink, All Pink: Flush of Hearts or Diamonds
• Blue, All Blue: Flush of Clubs or Spades
• Puppy Feet, Pups: Flush of Clubs
• One Jack Off: JJJxx
• Four Pips: AAAAx. (Each ace has one pip.)
• Motown: JJ55x (Jacks and Fives, Jackson Five)
• Devil's hand: 666xx (refering to the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation)
• Wheel: Ace to five low straight, also known as a Bicycle, or "The Name of the Game" in Bicycle.
• Steel wheel: Ace-to-five straight flush. So called because it's one of the strongest hands in the game (only beaten by higher straight flushes).
• Big Bobtail: An open ended 4 card straight flush.
• Boat: Short for Full Boat which means Full House, shorthanded as XXXs full of YYs, such as "Aces full of Jacks" where the hand is AAAJJ.
• Trips,Set: Three of a kind. The term "set" is usually used with the rank in question: "a set of Xs". In hold 'em games, the term set is used to refer to the situation when the player has three of a kind with a pair in the hole, but not when there is a pair or three of a kind on the board.
• Quads,Quartet: Four of a kind. When spoken, either "quad Xs" or "a quartet of Xs" (less common) would be used.
• Sometimes, four-of-a-kind is jokingly refered to as "two pair". If the quads are of low rank, they're often called "two small pair." This description is almost always followed by "a pair of red Xs and a pair of black Xs," where X is the rank of the four-of-a-kind.
• Two pair is commonly shorthanded as Xs up or Xs over Ys, with the top pair as X and the bottom pair as Y. For example, KK998 would be "kings up" or "kings over nines".
 
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