💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dead pool"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| deadpoolverb | (business, informal, ambitransitive) Of a company or project, to fail, to shut down, or to go bankrupt. |
| football poolnoun | A competition in which people try to predict the results of football matches and win money |
| numbers gamenoun | A lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly; especially, an illicit one. |
| poolnoun | A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water. |
| jackpotnoun | A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won. |
| banking gamenoun | (card games, gambling) A gambling game in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game. |
| black poolnoun | A form of the game of pool, mainly played in the 19th century, which later merged with pyramid pool to become the game of snooker. |
| spread bettingnoun | A form of gambling (or investment) in which a bookmaker (or broker) predicts a range of outcomes (or share price movements) and the better (or investor) places a stake on a higher or lower result and thus wins or loses a multiple of that stake, the multiple depending on the accuracy of the prediction |
| pin poolnoun | A variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. |
| codeballnoun | A sport, combining elements of golf and football, in which a rubber ball is repeatedly kicked from a marked area until it is successfully sunk into a bowl. |
| permnoun | (informal) A permutation. |
| pokernoun | (card games) Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. |
| pocket poolnoun | A variation of the game of pool. |
| speculationnoun | (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return. |
| pool of deathnoun | (sports) A grouping or division of competitors containing many highly skilled ones, who need to eliminate each other to proceed to the next round. |
| bet (poker) | — |
| pass-dicenoun | (obsolete, dice games) The game of passage. |
| newcomb's paradoxnoun | A thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom purports to be able to predict the future. The first player has to try to maximize winnings by choosing one of two boxes of money; however, the amount won also depends on whether a prediction made about the choice by the other player proves to be true. |
| pinballnoun | (games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points. |
| guessing gamenoun | (games) Any game the object of which is for a player or players to guess a word, etc, for which the other player or players provide clues. |
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