hole card

1. 1.

   any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously

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2. 2.

   (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown

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Questions about hole card

What does hole card mean?

hole card means "any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is hole card a common word?

hole card is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.