An animal caught off balance at the onset may fall to the ground with limbs fixed pokerlike in extension...
The original Battlestar Galactica featured triad, a basketball/football hybrid; pyramid, a pokerlike game; and pets...
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firm — Synonyms and related words: Aktiengesellschaft, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Christian, abiding, accepted, adamant, adamantine, agency, airtight, aktiebolag, anchored, anneal, approved, at a standstill, atelier, authentic, authoritative,… … Moby Thesaurus
renitent — Synonyms and related words: antagonistic, antipathetic, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, breakaway, clashing, complaining, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking … Moby Thesaurus
rigid — Synonyms and related words: abiding, accurate, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, attentive, austere, buckram, careful, cast iron, changeless, close, conscientious, constant, continuing, correct, critical, delicate, demanding, detailed,… … Moby Thesaurus
starched — Synonyms and related words: buckram, firm, in buckram, pokerlike, prim, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, starch, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, stilted, taut, tense, tight, unrelaxed, virgate … Moby Thesaurus
starchy — Synonyms and related words: adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous,… … Moby Thesaurus
stiff — Synonyms and related words: Arab, Bowery bum, Latinate, a bit much, abandoned, abusive, adamant, adamantine, afflictive, alcoholic, all thumbs, aloof, arduous, arid, artificial, ashes, austere, awkward, balker, balky horse, barren, beach bum,… … Moby Thesaurus
taut — Synonyms and related words: all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe,… … Moby Thesaurus
tense — Synonyms and related words: accented, agitated, all overish, alveolar, antsy, anxious, anxioused up, aorist, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, apprehensive, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, bothered, brace, broad, cacuminal … Moby Thesaurus
tight — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, afflicted, airtight, all ataunto, anal, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, aposiopestic, arduous, ataunt, austere, autocratic, avaricious, ballproof, bent,… … Moby Thesaurus
unrelaxed — Synonyms and related words: firm, pokerlike, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, strained, stretched tight, taut, tense, tight, under a strain, uptight, virgate … Moby Thesaurus
