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Gravy - Poker (gambling) and thickset (iou)


Gravy - Poker (gambling)


1) Unexpected profit on a hand. For example, in a no-limit lowball game one player has only $20 and is all in. You have created a side pot of $200 by raising another player. You and the Other player both have money left. The all-in player and the Other player each draw one card. You are snowing and stand pat on a queen-jack. After the draw, the player with remaining chips checks, you bet $200, and he folds. You know that the side pot is all yours, already a profit of $80, but you think that the $60 main pot probably will belong to the all-in player, however, on the showdown he cannot beat your hand, because he was drawing to a wheel and paired one of the small cards. That $60 is gravy. 2) The amount by which a player is ahead, usually implying that he is in a lot and was stuck until fairly recently. "Boy, you' re winning a lot! Look at all those chips--must be over a grand." "Uh huh. I' m in a thousand. There' s $1040 here, so $40 is gravy."

thickset (iou)



thickset adjective & noun. LME.
[from THICK adverb + set pa. pple of SET verb1.]
A. adjective.
Densely planted or studded (with); set or growing close together. LME.
T. Buckley They made a great fence around, with thick-set stakes. L. M. Montgomery A huge cherry-tree..so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was..seen.
Of solid or heavy build; stocky. E18.
C. Mungoshi He was short, thickset, with a bullneck.
(Of a garment) made of thickset; (of fabric) having a short thick pile. Now rare. E18.
b. noun.
A strong corduroy fabric with a short thick pile. Also, a garment made of this material. Now rare. E18.
A thicket; a thickset plantation. M18.