full house

1. 1.

   a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair

   Broaderpoker hand

Questions about full house

What does full house mean?

full house means "a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair".

Is full house a common word?

full house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.