Kill - Poker (gambling) and stirrup(1) (iou)

Kill - Poker (gambling)

1) To over blind (Put in a blind when one is already present.), or sometimes just blind. "I' ll kill it" means the pot has probably already been blinded and I' m putting in another blind that is at least twice the size of the largest blind already in. Less often to kill means to blind a pot that does not yet have a blind.

2) Deliberately make a hand dead by a dealer prior to exposing the hand when requested by a player. This is so the hand can be shown without causing any possible arguments that the hand might be legally entitled to the pot because it is still live. For example, John bets on the river in hold ' em, and Sue calls. As soon as Sue puts her chips in, John discards his cards un-shown, indicating that he was bluffing and any hand that can call has him beat. Willie, however, wants to see the hand, perhaps because he wants to get a line on John' s play, and says to the dealer, "Turn that hand up." Since John' s was a called hand , the dealer must, by the rules in most card rooms, expose the hand. He picks up John' s cards, taps them against the discards (thus killing the hand), and only then turns them face up.

A "kill" game is one in which a player may place an extra bet, causing the Betting limits to go up for just that hand. The player posting the bet is the "killer," and the hand is considered a "kill pot." The player is said to have "killed the pot" for the amount of the kill. The exact details depend on the local rules and on the game.

As examples, here are the rules for three kill Games I've played in (all in San Diego). In the kill hold'em game, any player who wins two pots in a row is required to kill by posting a blind small bet on the subsequent hand, with the limits doubled for that hand. In a kill high-low split game, any player who scooped a pot larger than a certain size was required to kill the subsequent pot. And in a draw game, any player could kill any pot for an arbitrary amount after looking at their first two cards. These are just examples, the details vary from cardroom to cardroom.

stirrup(1) (iou)

stirrup noun.

Either of a pair of supports for a rider's foot, consisting of a usu. metal loop with a flat base and a leather strap attaching this loop to each side of a saddle. Also, the metal loop of such a support only; = stirrup-iron below. OE.
A thing shaped like a stirrup; spec. a U-shaped clamp or support. ME.
Any of various kinds of footrest or looped strap analogous to a stirrup; spec. (a) in a crossbow, a footrest used to steady and brace the bow while it is being bent and loaded; (b) a device used by a shoemaker to keep the last steady on the knee; (c) a kind of footless stocking with a strap passing underneath the foot; such a strap; a similar strap attached to stretch trousers; (d) either of a pair of supports used to hold the legs of a female patient raised and apart during a gynaecological examination, labour, etc. LME.
Nautical.
a. A metal band or plate used to secure a keel to a ship's hull. LME.
b. Any of several short ropes hanging from the yards of a square-rigged sailing ship, the lower end of the rope having a thimble through which passes a footrope or horse, used when working on the sails. L15.
Anatomy. = STAPES. E17.
In reinforced concrete construction, each of the vertical or diagonal members which bind together the upper and lower reinforcement of a beam etc. E20.
Phrases: hold the stirrup (a) help a person to mount a horse by holding the stirrup steady, esp. as a manifestation of homage or reverence; (b) fig. be subservient. lose one's stirrups let one's feet accidentally slip out of the stirrups.
Comb.: stirrup-bar (a) each of the bars on a saddle-tree to which a stirrup-strap is attached; (b) the bar of a stirrup, on which the foot rests; stirrup-bone = sense 5 above; stirrup-cup (a) a glass of Wine etc. offered to a person (orig. on horseback) about to depart; (b) the drinking-vessel used for this; stirrup-iron the metal loop of a stirrup; stirrup-leather the strap attaching a stirrup to a saddle; stirrup pants stretch trousers with a strap passing underneath the foot; stirrup-pump a portable hand-operated water pump with a foot-plate resembling a stirrup, used to extinguish small fires with water drawn from a bucket; stirrup-strap = stirrup-leather above; stirrup-vase Archaeology a false-necked amphora with a square-cut handle on either side of the false spout.
stirrupless adjective (rare) LME.

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