full house

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full house

noun full houses

  1. A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair. 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 single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
  3. A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity. 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.
  4. broadly (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.

    Similar: packed house

adjective

  1. not comparable 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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noun three of a kind and a pair

한국어풀 하우스 pul hauseu
日本語フルハウス furuhausu
中文葫蘆 /葫芦 húlu
Portuguêsfull house
Françaisfull, main pleine
DeutschFull House
Italianofull
Ελληνικάφουλ foul
Românăful
Русскийфул-ха́ус ful-xáus

noun maximum capacity

日本語満員 man'in, 満席 manseki
中文滿座 /满座 mǎnzuò, 滿場 /满场 mǎnchǎng
Portuguêslotação esgotada
DeutschFull House
Italianopienone, tutto esaurito
Русскийаншла́г anšlág

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@misc{full_house_2026,
  title = {full house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/full%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}