noun one who pokes.
2. poker ·noun a poking-stick.
3. poker ·noun the poachard.
4. poker ·noun any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
5. poker ·noun a game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the southwestern united states.
6. poker ·noun that which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.