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• ___ bellum.

• ___ meridiem

• ___ meridiem (morning: Lat.)

• ___ up (pay one's share)

• ___ up (pay)

• ___ up!

• ___ up! (game cry)

• ___ up!: Pay your share!

• A 10-cent stake, perhaps

• A chip before the deal

• A chip for a kitty

• A chip in the pot, perhaps

• A chip or two to start with

• A chip, maybe

• A couple of chips in the pot, maybe

• A couple of chips, maybe

• A few chips in the pot, maybe

• A few chips, perhaps

• A few chips, say, in poker

• A hand-holder may build on this

• A penny in a pot, perhaps

• A penny is a small one

• A penny, at times

• A penny, sometimes

• A ten-cent contribution

• A.M. beginning

• A.M. word

• A.m.'s 'a'

• Active volcano near Messina

• Add to a pot

• Add to the kitty

• Add to the pot

• Addition to the pot

• Advance amount

• Advance of a sort

• Advance payment

• Alternative to blinds

• Amount of money that can be raised?

• Amount preceding a bet

• Amount preceding bets

• Amount to be raised

• Amount to be raised, maybe

• Amount to be raised, perhaps

• An anagram for neat

• Anaconda payment

• Ask for a hand, perhaps

• At times it's upped

• Attachment to a date?

• Be up front with it to get a hand

• Before

• Before, but after vigil

• Before, to Brutus

• Before: Pref.

• Before: prefix

• Beginning pot

• Bellum beginning

• Bellum or date preceder

• Bellum preceder

• Bellum prefix

• Bet

• Betting amount

• Betting beginning

• Bettor's starter

• Blind relative?

• Blind supplement, sometimes

• Blind-bet alternative

• Blind, essentially

• Blue chip, at times

• Blue chip, maybe

• Blue chip, perhaps

• Blue chip, sometimes

• Bread on the table, maybe

• Bread on the table?

• Bread put down on some tables

• Bring-in's cousin

• Brutus' before

• Build the pot

• Buy a hand

• Buy in

• Buy into a poker game

• Can t do it with a penny now

• Card fee

• Card game fee

• Card game stake

• Card player's stake

• Card-game money

• Card-game ritual

• Card-game starter

• Card-table money

• Cards fare

• Cards money

• Cards pitch-in

• Cards' cost

• Cash for a pot

• Cash for cards

• Cash on hand?

• Cash on the table

• Cause a pot to have a chip in it?

• Certain entrance fee

• Certain forced bet

• Certain pile of chips

• Chamber head?

• Chamber lead-in

• Chamber opening?

• Chamber starter

• Charge for a hand delivery?

• Chip for a pot

• Chip in

• Chip in a chip

• Chip in a chip for starters

• Chip in a chip, perhaps

• Chip in a pot

• Chip in a pot, maybe

• Chip in before deal

• Chip in chips

• Chip in for stud

• Chip in some chips

• Chip in the middle, maybe

• Chip in the pot

• Chip in, literally

• Chip not dipped

• Chip on the table

• Chip on the table, maybe

• Chip on the table, perhaps

• Chip or coin

• Chip or two, maybe

• Chip that starts a pot

• Chip to start

• Chip without dip?

• Chip, at times

• Chip, maybe

• Chip, often

• Chip, perhaps

• Chips for cards

• Chips to play

• Chips up front

• Chips, e.g.

• Clever wager

• Commitment to the game

• Compulsory bet.

• Contribute at cards

• Contribute to the pot

• Contribute, in a way

• Contribute, with up

• Contribution before the deal

• Contribution to a pot

• Contribution to the pot

• Contribution toward the pot

• Cost

• Cost for a deal?

• Cost of a hand

• Cost of a poker hand

• Cost of cards

• Cost of getting a hand

• Cost of playing

• Cost of staying in

• Cost to be dealt in

• Cost to get in on the deal

• Cost to go up and down the river

• Cost to play

• Cost, at cards

• Cough (up)

• Cough up a chip?

• Cough up for a kitty

• Cough up for the kitty

• Cough up, for a hand

• Cough up, in poker

• Cousin of pre-

• Create a pot

• Cut follower, maybe

• Cut follower, often

• Date beginning

• Date heading?

• Date introduction?

• Date leader?

• Date opener

• Date opening?

• Date or lope leader

• Date or room starter

• Date preceder

• Deal me in indicator

• Deal preceder

• Deal precursor

• Deal prelude

• Deal prelude, often

• Deal prerequisite, maybe

• Deal prerequisite?

• Dealer's call

• Dealer's call, perhaps

• Dealer's choice

• Dealer's demand

• Dealer's request

• Dealer's request, perhaps

• Dealer's requirement

• Demand a hand

• Deserve a hand?

• Do this and you'll get a hand

• Do this if you want to get a hand

• Draw payment

• Early bet

• Enter a deal

• Entrance fee

• Entrance fee of a sort

• Entry fee

• Entry fee for a poker hand

• Fee before a hand

• Feed the kitty

• Feed the kitty a penny?

• Feed the pot

• First cabbage in the pot?

• First chip

• First chip in

• First chip thrown in

• First chip tossed in

• First chip, perhaps

• First contribution to the pot

• First few chips, usually

• First of the pot

• First penny, perhaps

• First pot contribution

• First round of chips

• Fixed bet

• Fixed stake

• Flip a chip

• Folder's loss

• Folder's minimum loss

• Fore-

• Fork over for a hand

• Fork over, with up

• Front money

• Gambler s stake

• Gambler's input

• Gambler's obligation

• Gambling word

• Game admission

• Game stake

• Game starter

• Gaming stake

• Gaming table fee

• Get a hand for this*

• Get a pot going

• Get in a hand

• Get in on a deal

• Get in on the deal

• Get in on the pot

• Get in the game

• Get in the pot

• Get into the game, in a way

• Get it up!

• Get the kitty going

• Get the pot going

• Get the pot started

• Gin-game pot

• Give me a hand

• Give some money to the pot

• Go in on a hand

• Guts payment

• Hand cost

• Hand demand?

• Hand prerequisite

• Hand price

• Hand requirement

• Hand-delivery charge?

• Handful of chips, maybe

• Handover for a hand

• Help make a pot

• Help to create a pot

• Hold-'em ritual

• Hold'em payment

• Homophone for Mame's title

• I'm in indicator

• Indicate I'm in

• Indicate you're in

• Indication of serious intent

• Indication that you want a hand

• Individual share

• Ingredient in a pot

• Initial chip

• Initial contribution

• Initial contribution of a sort

• Initial offering?

• (in poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot