Woolworth ( poker )
1) In lowball, a 10-5 hand. 2) In high, two pair, 10s and
5s. 3) In hold 'em, a 10 and 5 as one's first two cards. 4)
Any game in which 10s and 5s are wild. 5) A nonstandard hand
sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards
5 to 10 with no pair, which ranks above three of a kind and
below a straight. For all definitions 1 to 4, also called dime
store; for definitions 2 and 3 only, sometimes also called dime
stores. Comes from the F. W. Woolworth retail chain, individual
stores of which were often called five-and-ten-cent stores or
five-and-dime stores (and often shortened to dime stores).
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