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full house
1. An assembly or audience which fills the building in which a performance is given or a meeting is held; also in extended use. Also, a session of a legislative or deliberative body, in which all or most of the members are present in their usual capacity (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1893).
[1662–3s.v. house n.1 4 g] .1710Steele Tatler No. 187 ⁋5 The full House which is to be at Othello on Thursday. 1764D. E. Baker Compan. Playhouse I, Minor... It brought full Houses for thirty-eight Nights. 1828Olio 22 Mar. 164/1 A party of itinerant Maromeros (or rope dancers) held their exhibition in the large walled yard.., to about eight hundred people; which was considered as a very ‘full house’. 1961Times 28 Aug. 3/1 It should be a full-house..when Spurs visit Old Trafford.
2. Poker. A hand containing three of a kind and a pair (next in value below four of a kind). Also fig.
1887Puck (U.S.) 7 Sept. 21/2 Noah drew to pairs and got a full house [in the ark]. 1908C. E. Mulford Orphan xxi. 267 You two make a pair of aces what can beat any full-house ever got together. 1922― Tex iii. 33 Tex wondered what the crowd would say if he should lean over and pull a royal flush out of Williams' ear, or a full-house from the nephew's nose. 1929E. Linklater Poet's Pub xxv. 274 He had filled the kitty roof-high, bluffed the four-ace-players, scared the full-house-holders. 1963G. F. Hervey Handbk. Card Games 238 If the 3 of Diamonds is discarded, the odds against improving to a full house is about 11 to 1. |