Usually means: Poker hand: aces, eights, black.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead-man's-hand: Wordnik
  2. dead man's hand: Wiktionary
  3. dead man's hand, dead mans hand: Dictionary.com
  4. Dead Man's Hand, Dead Man's Hand (video game), Dead man's hand, Dead man's hand (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead-man's hand, Dead mans hand, dead man's hand: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead man's hand: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead man's hand)

noun:  (poker) A pair of aces and a pair of eights (especially, the black aces and eights), in a player's hand.
noun:  (poker) An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
noun:  (poker, obsolete) Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens.


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