Spread ( poker )

 

1) Start a game. "Don't leave; we're about to spread a 20." 2) Show down; usually followed by a or the hand. "When I showed my pat 6-4, he spread a bicycle." 3) A game. If you phone your local card emporium, and ask the floor man how many games are going, he might say, "I have five spreads." 4) The act of exposing one's cards at the showdown. Also called roll.