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noun

Pokerface is a Group Video Chat Poker Game that lets you play with your friends and meet new ones. Join Pokerface, see your friends, and chat with them live! Have a real poker night from anywhere. Your face is the first giveaway that could cost you a game of poker. Keeping your emotions and reactions in check regarding hands dealt to you is a key part of poker. Any type of expression sacrifices your power in situations with your opponents. Clear your mind, wiggle your face to loosen the muscles, take a deep breath, and relax. A poker face is a facial expression that does not show any emotion, a facial expression that hides one’s feelings by appearing blank or neutral. The term poker face comes from the card game of poker, which often requires a player to bluff, or make the other players think he is holding different cards than the ones he is actually holding.

  • 1An impassive expression that hides one's true feelings.

    ‘In Europe and North America, these display rules encourage vivid facial expressions of emotion; a poker face is generally regarded as dull or deceptive.’
    • ‘Scott hid his grin behind a poker face - something he'd learned from Johnny.’
    • ‘When we express our goodwill, we usually use a smile or a welcoming expression, not just a political poker face.’
    • ‘He looked like he was brooding, but was hiding it behind the perfect poker face.’
    • ‘Without comment, he took the two cards he needed, hiding his contempt behind his poker face.’
    • ‘When he told me, I kept my poker face, but my insides went away.’
    • ‘He kept a poker face, reported the facts, and protected his sources.’
    • ‘My question is, when you know the contestant is giving you the wrong answer and a lot of money is at stake, how do you keep your poker face?’
    • ‘‘Now you're sure you know the rules’ I asked them over the top of my glasses with my sternest poker face.’
    • ‘Maguire walks this line with great skill and an unbelievable poker face.’
    • ‘He called his boss at the forwarding company ‘stoneman,’ because his boss has a poker face.’
    • ‘Does he regularly practice his poker face in front of the mirror?’
    • ‘Students usually keep a poker face because they don't want to be called on.’
    • ‘It's a poker face that's required in this game, and I've never been much good at cards.’
    • ‘The joy of it is in the sweat and butterflies, the clamped lips and steely eyes of the poker face.’
    • ‘‘Done,’ he said simply, sporting his best poker face.’
    • ‘‘Well,’ putting on her best poker face, Jennifer continued.’
    • ‘Years of practice in maintaining a poker face allowed him to take in his stride the invasion of his office by young women in light, summer dresses and a tale about one of them digging up a fortune while creating a winter herb garden.’
    • ‘The thing is, I still have to put my poker face up.’
    • ‘My hands shook from fear but I kept my poker face.’
    1. 1.1A person with a poker face.
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Tagged: Sex[suggest]

Song Released: 2008


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Poker Face Lyrics

Mum mum mum mah (5x)
I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas plays.
Fold em', let em' hit me,
raise it, baby stay with me.
(i love it)
Love game intuition
Play the cards with spades to start
And after he's been hooked
i'll play the...
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    anonymous
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    Feb 7th, 2011 2:33amreport


    Poker Face is about many things. Lady Gaga has been asked many times the meaning of this song and she has given several different answers.
    First and foremost, it is obvious that lyrically Poker Face is about sex and gambling; or more specifically, sex, with the use of gambling metaphors.
    On at least one occasion she claimed that the song was about 'how she catches guys'... that 'the second you let guys know you like them, they run away, so you've gotta keep your poker face.'
    However, by far the most interesting interpretation, that Lady Gaga claimed herself in an interview, is that the song is essentially about being bi-curious; she says that 'sometimes, when I was making love to my old boyfriend, I would think about women.' The lyrics 'Bluffin' with my muffin' are metaphorical for 'bluffing' with your vagina. 'I won't tell you that I love you, kiss or hug you'... In these two verses, Gaga is basically saying that she is having sex with men but doesn't feel any emotional attachment for them whatsoever, to the point where she doesn't even feel ashamed to be thinking about women while having sex with a man.
    People assume that, purely because of this song, that Lady Gaga is a 'proven bisexual' or some such. While it matters little to me, all this song really proclaims is the act of being bi-curious. I wouldn't freak out too much about it all.

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    anonymous
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    Nov 11th, 2009 11:11pmreport


    I read somewhere that this song is about lady gaga actually being interested in women.. not necessarily a lesbian.. just curious.
    The 'poker face' analogy being that to her boyfriend she obviously looks like she's straight but she's just got a 'poker face' on and is bluffing so that he doesn't find out that she's curious about women.
    I also read that it goes as far as when she's having sex with her boyfriend she's thinking about girls but I don't know if you believe that or not to be honest.

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    anonymous
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    Jun 4th, 2011 6:50pmreport


    I saw an interview on Fuse with Lady Gaga stating this song was about her thinking about women whilst having sex with a previous boy friend.

  4. Angelboo
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    Jun 14th, 2018 6:05amreport


    It's about faking orgasms.

  5. anonymous
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    May 29th, 2017 5:08pmreport


    I think is thinking about another women.

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  10. theSmoothieMinister
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    Mar 3rd, 2011 3:08pmreport


    I always thought it was about her showing a guy her 'Relationship Rules' as I call them. I don't know for sure, but it's still a good song to dance to!^_^

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  12. anonymous
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    Jan 13th, 2010 1:05amreport


    She's talking blow job's watch the video clip clearly, notice how her mouth is always wet and when she was talking russian roulette, with a gun? she didn't mean a real gun.. listen to the chorus, when it goes all electronic when she says poke poke her face! ;)


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