Poker slang

Hold'em slang

Bullets: Two aces in the hole. Also called pocket rockets and American Airlines.

Big slick: A-K offsuit.

Cowboys: Two kings in the hole.

Fifth street: The river card (fifth community card on board).

Flop: The first three community cards dealt. Also used as a verb. (ie if you have an 8-5 as your hole cards and the flop comes 8 - 5 - 5, you 'flopped a full house').

Fourth street: The turn card (fourth community card on board).

Nuts: The best possible hand given the five community cards on board. If the board includes a 10 - Jack - Queen - King - 6 of four different suits, the 'nuts' is an ace-high straight, and any player with an ace in his hand has the nuts. If the board is King - 7 - 7 - 7 - 3, the nuts is four 7s, and a player who has the remaining 7 will win the pot. Also used in combination with hand rankings: 'nut straight', 'nut flush', etc all refer to the best possible straight or flush.

Overpair: Pocket pair higher than all the community cards. Q-Q on a J-7-4 flop is an overpair.

River: The fifth and final community card. Also used as a verb for being beaten by a hand that an opponent makes on the river card (ie 'I got rivered when that ace hit!').

Set: When a player has a pair in the hole and a third card of the same rank appears on the board, giving her three of a kind, she has a 'set'. If the third card comes on the flop, she is said to have 'flopped a set.'

Top pair: When a card in your hand pairs the top card on board.

Turn: The fourth community card.