full house
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
noun
A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
noun
(theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.
adj
Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre."
- "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."