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| Heisman Trophy [Football] |
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An award presented annually by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York to the best college football player in the country.
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| Heisoku Dachi [Martial Arts] |
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Closed feet stance (attention stance)
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| Held Ball [Basketball] |
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A situation in which two opposing players have joint possession of the basketball and neither can gain sole possession without being over-aggressive. The ball is blown dead; in the NBA, a jump ball is used to restart play, while college teams use the alternate-possession rule.
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| Heli-Spread [Freestyle Skating] |
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A helicopter that includes a spread eagle. See also 180 spread 180.
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| Helical Gear [Motor Sports] |
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A gear in which the teeth are cut at an angle to the shaft. The advantage is that there are usually two teeth meshing at all times, making for smoother and quieter operation.
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| Helicopter [Freestyle Skating] |
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A mid-air maneuver in which the skier rotates the body 360 degrees.
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| Helicopter Tape [Motor Sports] |
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Used to cover and protect exposed areas from flying debris as helicopter technicians developed it to protect rotors.
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| Helm [Sailing] |
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The wheel or tiller of a boat.
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| Helm's Alee [Sailing] |
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A warning from the helmsman that the boat is about to tack.
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| Helmet [Horse Racing] |
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A lightweight fiberglass cap worn by jockeys to prevent head injuries. It is required equipment that is not considered part of a jockey's riding weight.
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| Helmsman [Sailing] |
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The person who is steering the boat.
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| Help [Poker] |
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To improve one's hand - Someone who says they need help means they need their hand to improve in order to have a chance at the pot. Or that they've just pawned their pacemaker to fund a few more hours of poker.
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| Hematoma [Horse Racing] |
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A blood-filled area resulting from injury.
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| Hemi [Motor Sports] |
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Slang term for an engine with hemispherical combustion chambers which allow for larger and less shrouded valves. Used in many sports and racing cars.
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| Hemi Head [Motor Sports] |
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A hemispherically shaped combustion chamber at the top of the engine cylinder. The hemispheric shape provides improved efficiency because the forces of the explosion are directed to the piston by the curved surface of the combustion chamber.
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| Hemisphere [Sailing] |
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Half of a sphere. On the globe hemispheres are used to describe the halves of the earth north or south of the equator.
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| Hen [Poker] |
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Queen (the card). Old, rare usage.
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| Hercules (Herc) [Skydiving] |
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules. Large aircraft with a huge ramp that allows a large amount of skydivers to exit in formation.
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| Here to There [Poker] |
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A straight, sometimes shortened to here to there; itself shortened from from here to there without a pair.
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| Hero Bumps [Freestyle Skating] |
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Soft consistent moguls, so called because they're easy to ski and can make any skier look like a hero.
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| Herringbone Climbing [Skiing] |
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A method of ascending by alternately lifting one ski and placing it ahead of the other, and placing them in a divergent position to each other on the snow.
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| Herse [Archery] |
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A defence work consisting of sharpened wooden stakes driven into the ground pointing towards the oncoming enemy, used to protect archers from cavalry charge.
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| Herse of Archers [Archery] |
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A wedge formation of archers supported on the flanks by men-at-arms, used by the English during the Hundred Years War.
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| Hi [Greyhound Racing] |
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Hinsdale, New Hshire
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| Hi-Lo [Poker] |
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Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand - In high-low split games, half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low). The criteria for deciding the low vary - see low. Split games are also often played with a qualifier that the low hand must be "8 or better." This means that the low hand must have five unpaired cards 8 or lower. Omaha and Seven Card Stud are the most popular high-low split games.
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| Hi-Lo Count [Blackjack] |
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A balanced level one counting system which values the 2 through 6 cards as a plus one and the tens, face cards and aces as a minus one. It has become the universal language of card counters, in the sense that many of the standard references to the count in games use the Hi-Lo count as a basis, such as the Illustrious 18. Often, when there is no other frame of reference, if someone refers to a count number, it is assumed that the reference is based on the Hi-Lo count. The most comprehensive guide to the Hi-Lo count can be found in Stanford Wong's book, Professional Blackjack.
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| Hi-Opt I. [Blackjack] |
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A balanced level one counting system included in Humble and Cooper's book, The World's Greatest Blackjack Book. It assigns the value of plus one to 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's and minus one to ten valued cards.
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| Hi-Opt Ii [Blackjack] |
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A balanced level two counting system which is sold separately from the Hi-Opt I system. It assigns a value of plus one to 2's, 3's, 5's and 6's, plus two to 4's and 5's, and minus two to ten valued cards.
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| Hi-Ya [Archery] |
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A fire arrow or rocket, Japan.
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| Hia [Archery] |
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A Chinese hand crossbow.
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| Hickory [Golf] |
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Wood from a native North American tree used at the beginning of the 19th century to make club shafts. Use continued until the 1920's.
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| Hidari [Martial Arts] |
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Left or left side.
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| Hidden Hand [Poker] |
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Concealed hand (A hand played in such a way that you would not suspect it of being very good, but that turns out to be so. For example, if, in lowball, two players kept raising each other back and forth, and a third just kept calling all the bets, you might suspect that he was drawing one to a good hand. If he turned out to have a pat wheel, that would be a concealed hand. In any poker game, if one player lets the others do all the betting for him, usually because the situation allows him to just keep calling without ever having to make a raise or leading bet of his own, and that player actually holds a hand that cannot lose, he is said to have a concealed hand. Also called hidden hand.).
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| Hidden Pair [Poker] |
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Concealed pair (In stud, a pair, both cards of which are among a player's first two down cards.).
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| Hidden Trips [Poker] |
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Down cards containing three of a kind, or, less commonly, a concealed pair matching one of the up cards.
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| Hide-Tace [Archery] |
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A target arrow with a blunt conical head used by boys when learning how to shoot, Omaha.
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| High [Poker] |
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The high hand is simply the best hand. When playing a high-low split game, one is said to "win the high" when one has the best hand, while another player wins the low. In seven card stud, the player with the strongest up cards is said to be high, and is usually first to act on fourth and subsequent streets.
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| High and Dry [Motor Sports] |
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When a racecar goes too high on the race track and loses one or more positions.
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| High and Tight [Baseball] |
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Referring to a pitch that's up in the strike zone and inside on a hitter. Also known as "up and in."
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| High Bar [Gymnastics] |
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1) In the uneven bars, the higher of the two bars. 2) The horizontal bar.
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| High Belly Strippers [Poker] |
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A deck marked by shaving the long edges of some cards (making the ends narrower than the middles) so that a thief can tell by feel the values of certain cards, usually certain high or low cards, such as the aces.
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| High Bet [Roulette] |
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A wager on the upper 18 numbers (19-36).
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| High Card [Poker] |
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1) In a stud game, the exposed card with the highest rank, usually the one who must initiate the first round of betting. 2) At the showdown, a hand that wins when two no-pair hands or two flushes are in contention by virtue of containing a card of higher rank than any in the other hand.
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| High Chicago [Poker] |
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This games plays the same as Seven Card Stud with the exception that the highest spade in the hole gets half the pot. This adds some interesting variation to the game, because if you are dealt the ace of spades in your first two down cards then you have guarenteed half the pot. Even if you start betting and raising like a maniac, chances are people won't fold because they will hope to get the other half of the pot. You might want to hold on until fourth street before you start betting heavily so that it isn't totally obvious that you have the ace.
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| High Draw Poker Dictionary [Poker] |
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1) Any form of draw poker played for high. 2) California draw (High draw poker as most often played in limit games: pass-and-back-in before the draw, jacks or better to open, each player antes, and there are no blinds.).
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| High End Ticket [Keno] |
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A keno ticket that pays more for catching a high number of spots, but less (or nothing) for catching fewer spots (as compared to a regular ticket).
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| High Fives [Baseball] |
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Well known American sporting gesture of slapping hands with someone turning in a quality teamworking performance. Australian baseball HIGH FIVES are given to the other team at the end of most club games from Tee Ball to Masters. Each team completes the RAH RAHs and then forms a single line to HIGH FIVE or shake the hand of the other team, no matter what the outcome. While some senior clubs may not choose to do RAH RAHs, everyone participates in HIGH FIVES.
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| High Hand [Poker] |
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In high-low split, a hand that wins the high half, or is in contention for it.
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| High Hit [Bowling] |
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A hit on or near the center of the head pin.
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| High Line [Fencing] |
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Any line above the midway point of the fencer's trunk or above the guard.
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| High Mambo [Poker] |
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A combination between stud and a widow game, in which players use three cards in their hands plus one community card, played high-low. Each player is dealt one down card and one up card, followed by a round of betting, one more up card, one more round of betting, and then a community card, with a final round of betting. Players use any combination of three of their four cards for high hand and any three for low. hand rankings differ from "ordinary poker." The highest ranking low hand, A -2 -3, is called a Low Mambo, and the highest ranking high hand, Q - K - A suited, is called a High Mambo. The remaining high hands rank this way: straight flush, three of a kind, straight, flush, one pair, highest card rank. There is a qualifier for low: to win the low half, a hand must be 6-high or better. One worse than a Low Mambo is A-2-4, and so on. If there is no low, the entire pot goes to the high hand.
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| High Man [Poker] |
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1) In a stud game, the player whose board currently has the highest card combination. 2) In high-low split, the holder of the hand that wins high.
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| High Polish Finish [Golf] |
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Shiny (mirror) finish applied to stainless steel iron heads through a series of polishing belt operations.
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| High Post [Basketball] |
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An area in the frontcourt, near the free throw line, where the center is often positioned. See also double post; low post.
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| High Roller [Blackjack] |
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A person who makes large wagers in the casino. What constitutes a high roller in one casino may be very different from one casino to another one. For example, a $100 bettor may be considered a high roller in a small downtown casino such as Fitzgerald's, but wouldn't attract too much attention at the Mirage.
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| High Society [Poker] |
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High society chips (Chips of the largest denomination in a particular establishment. In a small game, in which dollar chips are used for most bets, and $5 chips are termed society chips, $20 or $100 chips would be considered high society chips; in a $20 game, with most bets made with $5 chips, high society chips would probably be $100 chips.). "Gimme a stack of high society."
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| High Society Chips [Poker] |
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Chips of the largest denomination in a particular establishment. In a small game, in which dollar chips are used for most bets, and $5 chips are termed society chips, $20 or $100 chips would be considered high society chips; in a $20 game, with most bets made with $5 chips, high society chips would probably be $100 chips.
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| High Spade [Poker] |
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1) A side bet in which two or more players (usually in a draw or lowball game) agree that whoever has the highest card in the spade suit on the next hand (or, if no one has a spade that hand, on the following hand or hands) wins something, usually a prearranged bet, or a free drink bought by the loser or losers. 2) To play for the high spade. "I'll high spade you for the drinks" means that if, for example, I get the seven of spades on the next hand and you get no spades or a spade lower than the seven, you're supposed to buy me a drink, if you agree to the proposition. Sometimes called just spade.
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| High Spade in the Hole [Poker] |
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A poker game played only in private or home games, a form of seven-card stud in which the pot is split between the holder of the highest hand and the holder of the highest spade in the hole. Also known as Black Maria, Chicago.
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| High Spin Ball [Golf] |
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Any one of a number of golf balls designed for maximum spin and control. High spin balls are generally soft feeling and are preferred by better players.
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| High Stakes [Poker] |
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High-stakes game (Any game played for larger amounts than the other games in a particular establishment, or one in which big bets are permitted and common. Also called a big bet game.).
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| High Stick [Ice Hockey] |
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A stick carried with the blade above shoulder level. A goal cannot be scored with a high stick. See also the following entry.
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| High Tide [Sailing] |
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The point of a tide when the water is the highest. The opposite of low tide.
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| High Weight [Horse Racing] |
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Highest weight assigned or carried in a race.
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| High-Low [Poker] |
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A poker game in which the highest and lowest hands share the pot. Also called High-Low Split.
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| High-Low Bet [Roulette] |
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Bets 18 numbers at the same time (1-18 or 19-36). Pays 1-1.
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| High-Low Light [Blackjack] |
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Card counting system similar to Red Seven, but slightly more powerful. Recommended for those having mastered Red Seven.
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| High-Low Pick-Up [Blackjack] |
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The way the dealer picks up the players' or his cards from the table, is rigidly set down by each casino. "High-low pickup" is when the dealer, while pretending to follow house rules, picks up in separate slugs (small amount of cards) a pack of high cards (like face cards) and low cards, and then proceeds to control these slugs in the shuffle for a certain purpose (ie dealing high cards to a confederate at the table, dealing himself stiff hands etc).
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| High-Low Poker Dictionary [Poker] |
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Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand - In high-low split games, half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low). The criteria for deciding the low vary - see low. Split games are also often played with a qualifier that the low hand must be "8 or better." This means that the low hand must have five unpaired cards 8 or lower. Omaha and Seven Card Stud are the most popular high-low split games.
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| High-Low Split [Poker] |
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Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand - In high-low split games, half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low). The criteria for deciding the low vary - see low. Split games are also often played with a qualifier that the low hand must be "8 or better." This means that the low hand must have five unpaired cards 8 or lower. Omaha and Seven Card Stud are the most popular high-low split games.
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| High-Low Split Game [Poker] |
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Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand - In high-low split games, half the pot goes to the best hand (the high), half to the worst (the low). The criteria for deciding the low vary - see low. Split games are also often played with a qualifier that the low hand must be "8 or better." This means that the low hand must have five unpaired cards 8 or lower. Omaha and Seven Card Stud are the most popular high-low split games.
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| High-Modulus Graphite [Golf] |
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A shaft material stiffer than standard graphite. The higher the modulus of graphite, the lower its compression strength.
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| High-Roll [Poker] |
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Try to increase the stakes in a game, or try to run over the game by constantly betting more than the other players feel comfortable with. "We were happy playing $2-to-go until you came along jacking up every pot; quit trying to high-roll the game
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| High-Stakes [Poker] |
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Pertaining to a game played for larger amounts than the other games in a particular establishment, or one in which big bets are permitted and common.
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| High-Stakes Game [Poker] |
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Any game played for larger amounts than the other games in a particular establishment, or one in which big bets are permitted and common. Also called a big bet game.
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| High-Sticking [Ice Hockey] |
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A minor penalty which occurs when a player checks an opponent by carrying his stick above the normal height of his opponent’s waist and hits, or menaces the opponent with it; if injury is caused it becomes a major penalty; if a referee determines that the raising of the stick was unintentional and no contact occurred, the penalty is only against the team and results in a face-off.
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| Highball [Poker] |
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High draw poker. This term is rarely used.
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| Higher [Bowling] |
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Farther to the left for right-handers, to the right for left-handed bowlers.
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| Highline [Freestyle Skating] |
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To ski a line toward the crest of a mogul rather than in the trough.
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| Highway Loss Data Institute [Motor Sports] |
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Sister organization to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Funded by insurance companies.
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| Highweight Handicap [Horse Racing] |
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Race in which the topweight is assigned no less than 140 pounds.
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| Hiji [Martial Arts] |
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Elbow. Also known as empi.
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| Hiki Wake [Martial Arts] |
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A draw. (Judo and karate)
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| Hiki-Ya [Archery] |
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A Japanese whistling arrow.
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| Hikime [Archery] |
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An arrow with a perforated head, Japan.
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| Hiking [Sailing] |
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Moving the crew's weight to or past the windward rail to counteract the heeling of a boat. Typically seen when boats are racing.
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| Hiking Stick [Sailing] |
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An extension to the tiller allowing the helmsman to steer while hiking. This may be desired for improved visibility or stability.
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| Hikite [Martial Arts] |
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Pull the hand, arm back
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| Hikiwake [Martial Arts] |
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"Draw" or "tie." Referee's term denoting a draw in a match.
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| Hill [Skydiving] |
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The transitional period just after exiting the aircraft when the relative wind shifts from an angle to vertical.
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| Hill to Climb [Poker] |
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Obstacle to overcome. "You're stuck $100? That's no hill to climb for a stepper."
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| Hilt [Fencing] |
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The area of the sword excluding the blade and including the guard, grip, pad, and pommel.
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| Himm [Martial Arts] |
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Force" or "power.
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| Hind Foot [Equestrian Sports] |
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One of a horse's back feet.
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| Hineri [Martial Arts] |
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Rotating
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| Hip Check [Ice Hockey] |
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A check on which the defensive player bumps the opponent with the hip. As a verb, to execute such a check.
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| Hip Circle [Gymnastics] |
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A move on the uneven bars in which the body circles the bar with the hips touching it.
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| Hip Room [Motor Sports] |
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The allotted room between a passenger's hips and any other part of the vehicle.
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| Hip Steel [Golf] |
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Ot Isostatic Process. Proprietary stainless steel characterized by soft feel and high tensile strength used by Orlimar and made popular in their driver line.
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| Hipa [Archery] |
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Arrow cement, Omaha.
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| Hira Basami [Martial Arts] |
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A strike in which the first knuckle of the first finger, or the area between the thumb and the first finger, is the striking surface. Literally "tiger's mouth."
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| Hirate [Martial Arts] |
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Foreknuckle.
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| Hit [Poker] |
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1) To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. 2) Arrive. "The ace of hearts hit on the river." 3) The needed card that makes a particular hand.
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| Hit / Hitting ( Draw / Drawing ) [Blackjack] |
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A decision by the player to take another card. The request is almost never made verbally. In a hand-held game, it is made by scratching the cards against the felt, and in a face-up game, it is made by tapping the felt when it is the player's turn to either refuse or accept another card.
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| Hit and Run [Baseball] |
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Play-action situation in which the batter must swing at the pitch while the base runner attempts to steal the base.
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| Hit Card [Blackjack] |
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1. A card requested by the player during play. 2. Additional cards the dealer must take to complete a hand.
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| Hit Hard [Golf] |
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Knocked from the race by another dog.
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| Hit Him Out! [Baseball] |
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Yelled by batting team to batter, meaning for the batter to obtain a major hit at the pitcher's expense.
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| Hit it!. [Poker] |
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1) "Let's go." That might be, depending on the situation, "I'll call your large bet," "I'll draw cards," "I'll play in this pot." 2) "I raise."
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| Hit the Brief [Poker] |
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A cheating maneuver in which the deck is cut at a prearranged spot, often managed by shuffling in a brief. Also, force the cut.
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| Hit the Deck [Poker] |
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1) Draw one or more cards. "When he stood pat, I knew I had to hit the deck." In lowball, usually implies a one-card draw. 2) Make a hand. "Things have been running so bad for me the only time I can hit the deck is when I'm drawing dead
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| Hit the Kicker [Poker] |
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1) In draw poker, draw two to a pair, or one to three of a kind, with a kicker, instead of drawing three to the pair alone or two to the trips, and catch another card of the same rank as the kicker. If you draw to a pair of kings with an ace and make two pair, aces and kings, you hit the kicker.2) In hold 'em, catch a card of the same rank as your unpaired card. 3) In seven card stud, catch a card of the same rank as one of your side cards, when you already have a pair.
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| Hit the Table [Poker] |
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Stand pat (To decline an opportunity to draw cards.). So called because a player often hits the table with his hand when it is his turn to announce his draw if he has a pat hand. Also, knuckle, rap
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| Hit the with Deck [Poker] |
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Be in a situation of making every hand or having good hands in crucial pots, particularly when large pots are involved.
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| Hit-and-Run Artist [Poker] |
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One who plays briefly in each of several games, usually with the intention of having a short winning session in each. This kind of a player is usually disliked, because he takes money out of the game, leaving the remaining players trying to win from a reduced pool of chips. Also, chopper.
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| Hit-me Pitch [Baseball] |
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A pitch that is good to hit. Usually referred to in the past tense as "He threw me a real "hit-me" pitch."
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| Hitch [Sailing] |
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A knot used to attach a line to a cleat or other object.
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| Hitchhiker [Poker] |
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1) An unexpected participant in your pot; usually preceded by pick up a. "I was trying to win all Jim's chips, but I picked up a hitchhiker, and she drew out on both of us." 2) An expected participant, generally someone you're trying to trap. "Looks like I got a hitchhiker" could be heard from someone who raised a lot and probably will win the pot, including many chips from the fool (that is, the hitchhiker) who elected to trail along. 3) Someone who comes in cold to a pot, that is, someone who has not yet had the opportunity to call any bets and, when a pot has already been raised, calls the initial bet plus the raise. For example, you open the pot in a limit game. I make it two bets, that is, I raise. Now the action comes around to the player to the right of the dealer, who calls the two bets. That player is called a hitchhiker. Also called fence hopper
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| Hits or Hits against (H) [Baseball] |
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Number of hits a batter safely reaches a base on not including walks or sacrifices. For pitchers, the number of hits given up while pitching.
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| Hitting True [Croquet] |
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Hitting the ball with a level swing, as opposed to hitting up or down.
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| Hiza [Martial Arts] |
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Knee or lap.
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| Hiza Geri [Martial Arts] |
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Hit/attack with the knee
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| Hm [Baseball] |
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Home Runs at Home
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