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full house

 noun
     
Related topics: Cards
full house [countable usually singular]
1 an occasion at a cinema, concert hall, sports field etc when there are no empty seats:
Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house.
2DGC three cards of one kind and a pair of another kind in a game of poker
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