Crossword clues for ante
ante
- What a player may risk first
- Vegas payment
- Up the ___ (risk more)
- Tossed-in penny, perhaps
- Toss a chip in the pot
- Stud requirement
- Starting poker chip
- Starting poker bet
- Start to date
- Start to build a pot
- Stake to partake
- Stake on the table
- Sometimes it's upped
- Show you're in
- Share of expenses
- Served without ice
- Required wager
- Required bet in poker
- Put your two cents in?
- Put in a chip
- Prove that you want a hand
- Produce, with "up"
- Price of participation
- Price of hand delivery?
- Price for hand delivery?
- Prefix with room
- Prefix with cede
- Prefix for diluvian
- Prefix for "penultimate"
- Pot thickener?
- Pot maker
- Pot ingredient
- Pot grower
- Pot donation
- Pot chips
- Poker-pot stake
- Poker-game starter
- Poker table payment
- Poker state
- Poker pot-builder
- Poker pot part
- Poker post
- Poker player's must-do
- Poker player's initial stake
- Poker player's initial payment
- Poker player's entrance fee
- Poker entry fee
- Poker dealer's requirement
- Player's fixed contribution
- Play money
- Penny, in some poker games
- Penny-___ (small-time)
- Penny-__ (small-time)
- Penny in the pot, say
- Penny in a pot, sometimes
- Payment up-front
- Payment to play a poker hand
- Payment before a deal is made
- Pay your share, with "up"
- Pay to hold one's hand?
- Opposite of "post"
- Opening poker stake
- Opening payment
- Opening pay-in
- One chip, often
- Neat anagram?
- Money on the table, maybe
- Money on the table
- Money for a hand
- Kitty feeder
- Kick into a pot
- Kick in to a pot
- Kick in on a deal
- It's upped at times
- It's tossed into a pot
- It's tossed in a pot
- It's often upped
- It's in the pot
- It will get you a hand
- It might be a blue chip
- It makes a kitty grow
- It can be a single chip
- Initial poker wager
- Initial poker cost
- Initial contribution of a sort
- Indication that you want a hand
- Hold-'em ritual
- Hold 'em ritual
- Help to create a nice pot
- Help to create a big pot
- Handover for a hand
- Hand bill?
- Go in on a hand
- Give some money to the pot
- Get the kitty going
- Get a poker pot started
- Game stake
- Gambler's input
- First poker stake
- First chip thrown in
- Feed the kitty, in poker
- Entrance fee of a sort
- Draw poker bet
- Cough up a chip?
- Cost for cards
- Contribute chips
- Chips, e.g
- Chips to play
- Chip on the table, perhaps
- Chip in, with "up"
- Chip in?
- Chip in, in a way
- Chip in the pot
- Chamber starter
- Chamber head?
- Casino stake
- Cards' cost
- Cards money
- Bellum beginner
- Amount to be raised, perhaps
- Amount preceding a bet
- Addition to the pot
- A single poker chip, sometimes
- A poker stake
- A few chips, maybe
- A chip in the pot, perhaps
- ''Post'' opposite
- --- meridiem
- Word on a Caribbean Stud Poker table
- Word in the a.m.?
- Word heard in the back room
- Where the chips may fall
- What to do if you'd like a hand
- What starts some games
- What seals the deal?
- Way to pay to play
- Way to get a deal started
- Vide ___ (see before, in Latin)
- Vegas money
- Upping the ___
- Upped the ___
- Upfront poker stake
- Upfront bet
- Up-front poker money
- Up-front fee
- Up the __: raise the stakes
- Up the ___ (raise the stakes)
- Up the ___ (make things more interesting, in a way)
- Up the ___ (make the stakes higher)
- Up the ___ (increase what's at stake)
- Toss in the pot
- Toss in the first chips
- Toss in some chips
- Toss in chips before the deal
- Toss in a chip, maybe
- Toss in a chip to play poker
- Throw the first chips in
- Throw some coins on the table, maybe
- Throw into the pot
- Throw in the first chips
- Thing to up in poker
- Thing to do before you raise
- The price to play
- The A of A.M
- The a in a.m
- The "a" of a.m
- Texas Hold'em stake
- Tableau prop
- Stud poker bet
- Startup money?
- Starting stake in cards
- Starting stake in a card game
- Starting poker pot contribution
- Starting pay in Vegas?
- Starting money of a sort
- Starting money in a poker pot
- Starting contribution to a poker pot
- Starting contribution
- Starter on a table
- Starter chips
- Start-up money?
- Start the spot
- Start the pot going
- Start for date?
- Stakes before the deal
- Stake that might get you jacked up?
- Stake that can be upped
- Stake in a game
- Stake in a casino
- Stake for a hand
- Stake (that may be upped?)
- Sort of admission fee
- Something to do before a deal
- Single chip, perhaps
- Show that you want a hand
- Share of group expenses
- Seven-card stud start
- Round tab
- Room or chamber
- Room opening?
- Requirement for card recipients, often
- Required pot contribution
- Required poker chip
- Required poker bet
- Required payment
- Required Hold 'em bet
- Required game payment
- Required bet in a game of poker
- Reno opening
- Relative of a blind, in poker
- Raise stakes, up the ...
- Qualify for a hand
- Put your money where your hand is
- Put your money down, with "up"
- Put up
- Put one's two cents in, perhaps?
- Put an initial chip in the pot, in poker
- Prior (to)
- Prime the poker pot
- Price to play a hand
- Price for playing
- Price for part of a deck?
- Prepare to get a hand
- Prepare for a deal
- Preliminary stake
- Prefix with penultimate
- Prefix with date or cede
- Prefix with chamber or bellum
- Prefix similar to "pre-"
- Prefix for bellum or date
- Prefix for bellum
- Predeal stake
- Predeal chip
- Pre-deal wager
- Pre-deal stake
- Pre-deal request
- Pre-deal poker requirement
- Pre-deal poker payment
- Pre-deal bet in poker
- Pre-deal bet
- Pre- kin
- Pot-building payment
- Pot throw-in
- Pot sweller
- Pot starter, in poker
- Pot starter at the poker table
- Pot stake
- Pot portion
- Pot for gamblers
- Pot fee
- Pot enhancer
- Pot deposit
- Pot bet
- Post- antonym
- Pony (up)
- Poker-hand preliminary
- Poker-game precursor
- Poker seed money
- Poker requirement
- Poker prerequisite
- Poker precursor
- Poker pot seed
- Poker pot opening
- Poker pot money
- Poker pot component
- Poker player's imperative
- Poker player's contribution
- Poker paying
- Poker opening
- Poker offering
- Poker night pot
- Poker night action
- Poker hand requirement
- Poker hand payment
- Poker hand fee
- Poker hand cost
- Poker hand buy-in
- Poker game's starting stake
- Poker game's starting bet
- Poker dealer's demand
- Poker beginning
- Poker admission
- Players may up it
- Player's pot
- Player's contribution
- Play to pay
- Play fare
- Penultimate prefix
- Penny, in poker
- Penny-__: unimportant
- Penny-__: trivial
- Penny-___ (low-stakes)
- Penny-___ (insignificant)
- Penny-__ (trifling)
- Penny-__ (insignificant)
- Penny wager
- Penny or matchstick, in some poker games
- Penny in a pot, perhaps
- Penny ending
- Penny ___ (low-stakes game)
- Penny ___ (cards pay-in)
- Payment to play cards
- Payment made at the start of a poker hand
- Payment in poker
- Payment in a casino
- Payment for a poker hand
- Payment before a hand
- Payment before a deal is finalized
- Pay to play, in poker
- Pay to play cards
- Pay to play a hand, in poker
- Pay to join the hand
- Pay to hold a hand
- Pay to get into a poker hand
- Pay to get in
- Pay to deal
- Pay in
- Pay for diamonds, say?
- Pay for cards
- Part of the pot
- Part of a large pot
- Part of "a.m."
- Opening poker payment
- Opening poker chips
- Opening chip, in poker
- Opening bet in a card game
- Opening amount
- Open the pot
- One way to get a hand
- One poker chip, perhaps
- One or two chips, maybe
- One chip, maybe
- One chip
- Omaha stake
- Omaha payment
- Obligatory contribution of a sort
- No one's in until this is put in
- Need to play, say
- Necessary bet in a poker game
- Money secured before a deal
- Money riding on a card
- Money put up front
- Money put on the table
- Money for pot?
- Money for cards
- Minute stake?
- Minimum poker bet
- Lope opening?
- Lead-in to date or room
- Large pot supported with several hands
- Kitty's beginning
- Kitty start
- Kitty insert
- Kitty input
- Kin of pre-
- Kick off a poker hand
- Kick off a kitty
- Kick into the opening pot
- Kick in seed money
- Kick in for a poker hand
- Join, as a hand
- ItÂ's just for openers
- It's usually put in the middle of a table
- It's usually one chip
- It's upped in poker
- It's pitched into the pot
- It's down when the chips are down
- It's agreed on before making a deal
- It might be upped at the poker table
- It may lead to a good deal
- It may force a hand
- It may be upped by those with nice hands
- It may be accompanied by a blind
- It helps a kitty grow
- It gets a kitty going
- It follows penny
- It could precede a good deal
- It can show interest in a deal
- It can lead to raises
- It always comes before a flop
- Initial poker bet
- Initial house payment?
- Initial game payment
- Initial financial commitment
- Initial fee
- Initial cost of a hand, in poker
- Initial cost
- Initial bet in a card game
- Indicate "I'm in"
- In front of: Prefix
- Hold'em pot starter
- Hold'em payment
- Hold 'em term
- Hold 'em starter
- Hand's cost
- Hand's chip
- Hand-delivery payment?
- Hand-delivery charge?
- Hand outlay
- Hand contribution
- Go in in Vegas
- Gin-game pot
- Get in on a poker game
- Game starter
- Gambling word
- Gambler's starting bet
- Gambler's payment
- Gambler's deposit
- Front money
- Fork over for a hand
- Forced initial payment in poker
- Food for the kitty?
- Folder's loss
- Fixed stake
- Fixed bet
- First pot contribution
- First poker chip
- First penny, perhaps
- First payment in a hand of poker
- First move at the card table
- First few chips, usually
- First chip, say
- First chip, perhaps
- First chip, often
- First chip tossed in
- First chip in the poker pot
- First chip
- First bet in a summer World Series
- Feed a pot
- Fee paid in chips
- Fee of sorts
- Fee of a sort
- Fee for hand delivery?
- Fee for all
- Entry fee for a poker hand
- Draw payment
- Dealer's requirement
- Dealer's request to a poker player
- Dealer's choice?
- Deal prerequisite, maybe
- Date starter
- Date or lope leader
- Date opening?
- Date leader?
- Cousin of pre-
- Couple of chips, maybe
- Couple of chips, e.g
- Cough up some chips?
- Cough up a poker chip
- Cost to go up and down the river
- Cost to get a hand
- Cost of getting a hand
- Cost for a hand
- Contribution toward the pot
- Contribution to the pot
- Contribute, with "up"
- Contribute, in a way
- Contribute to a pot
- Contribute a share
- Contribute a chip
- Commitment to the game
- Club payment?
- Chips in a pot, sometimes
- Chips for cards
- Chip, at times
- Chip to start with
- Chip to start
- Chip or coin thrown in the pot
- Chip in for a hand?
- Chip in for a hand
- Chip in a pot?
- Chip in a pot, perhaps
- Chip in a new pot
- Chip in a chip for starters
- Chip for a hand
- Charge for a hand
- Certain forced bet
- Certain buy-in
- Casino payment
- Casino game requirement, often
- Cards pitch-in
- Card player's initial stake
- Card fee
- Buy in, in a way
- Buy in
- Build the pot
- Brutus' "before"
- Bring-ins cousin
- Bread on the table?
- Blue chip, at times
- Blind, essentially
- Blind supplement, sometimes
- Bet all players must make
- Begin a pot
- Before — behind
- Be up front with it to get a hand
- Ask to be handed a hand?
- Ask for a hand, perhaps
- Arbitrary stake
- Anagram of "neat"
- Anaconda payment
- Amount bet in poker before the cards are dealt
- Alternative to a blind
- Admission price, of a sort
- Add a chip
- A.m. word
- A.M. beginning
- A penny, sometimes
- A penny in a pot, perhaps
- A hand-holder may build on this
- A few chips, say
- A few bucks to start the pot, say
- A couple of chips, say, in poker
- A chip, perhaps
- A chip, at times
- A chip or two, usually
- "Give me a hand"
- "___ up!" (card player's cry)
- "__ up!": "Pay your share!"
- ___ up (pay one's share)
- __ up (pay one's share)
- Put a stake on the table
- Bettor's starter
- Make a pot
- Stake of a sort
- Pay, with "up"
- Poker opener, perhaps
- Chip in a chip, perhaps
- Play money?
- Penny _____
- Up-front amount, in poker
- Kitty starter, in poker
- Not post-
- Cost of playing
- Buy into a poker game
- A chip, maybe
- Initial offering?
- Morning's start, in old Rome?
- Dealer's demand
- Kitty feed?
- Pot starter, in Texas hold 'em
- Pot builder?
- Upfront money
- Amount to be raised, maybe
- Penny, perhaps
- Blue chip, maybe
- Add to the pot
- It's just for openers
- Temporal prefix
- Start for a kitty
- Chip in chips
- Two chips, e.g.
- Cough up for a kitty
- Poker starter
- Chip for a pot
- Pot component
- Opening bit
- Penny fee
- What's required to be "in"
- Poker payment before the deal
- Individual share
- Poker pot starter
- Cost of cards
- Opening wager
- You have to be upfront about this
- Amount to be raised?
- Get the pot going
- It's a starter
- Prime the pot
- One chip, perhaps
- Pay to play, with "up"
- Penny, sometimes
- White chip, often
- Do this if you want to get a hand
- Starting stake in poker
- Poker player's payment
- Deal preceder
- Penny, maybe, in poker
- Pot grower?
- Advance amount
- Put up stakes
- Upfront amount
- Startup cost
- Play opener
- Prefix with room or date
- Opening amount in a poker pot
- Pay one's share, with "up"
- Money to play with
- Start a pot going
- Pay to play poker
- Poker stake
- Price of a hand
- Table payment
- It's for openers
- At times it's upped
- It goes to pot
- Pay (up)
- Pony up for a hand
- Opening stake
- Hand demand?
- Chamber lead-in
- Part of A.M.
- Table stake
- Put in the pot
- Stud stakes
- Put one's two cents in?
- Stud fee?
- Prepay, with "up"
- A few chips, perhaps
- ___ meridiem (what "a.m." stands for)
- Prefix with date or chamber
- Contribution before the deal
- Pay for a hand
- Contribution to a pot
- Some chips, maybe
- Feed the kitty?
- Poker pot primer
- Requirement for a hand, say
- Initial stake in a poker game
- Kick into the pot
- It goes in the center of the table
- Get in on a deal
- Toss in a chip, say
- Part of a pot on the table
- Put up a stake
- Show that one's in?
- Gambler's stake
- Requirement for some games
- Indication of serious intent
- With 2-Down, ancients
- Fork over, with "up"
- It goes in the middle of the table
- A few chips, say, in poker
- Prelude to a deal, perhaps
- Pot foundation
- Gaming table fee
- It's put in a pot
- Chip on the table, maybe
- A couple of chips in the pot, maybe
- Help make a pot
- The "a" in a.m.
- What you may do to get a hand
- Requirement in a game of dealer's choice
- Handful of chips, maybe
- Pay the kitty
- Payment at a table
- You might get a hand for it
- Put in to get in
- It may be upped, in poker
- Blind relative?
- A penny is a small one
- Put (up)
- A couple of chips in the pot, say
- A few chips in the pot, maybe
- Penny-___ (trivial)
- Start the kitty
- Start to date?
- Table center piece?
- Prefix with chamber or room
- A couple of chips, maybe
- Chip without dip?
- Start a hand, maybe
- Start the pot, in poker
- It may be raised at a table
- It might get your kitty going
- A chip or two to start with
- Kick in, say
- Chips in the pot
- Chip or two, maybe
- Amount of money that can be raised?
- "___ up!" (game cry)
- Throw in a few chips, say
- Active volcano near Messina
- ___ meridiem (morning: Lat.)
- Stud money
- Put down some chips
- Initial poker stake
- Minimum poker loss
- Something that's just for starters?
- Bread on the table, maybe
- Let go to pot?
- Get in on the deal
- Opening bet, in poker
- A few poker chips, maybe
- Advance on a table
- Certain stake
- Price to play a poker hand
- Status quo ___ bellum
- Pot addition
- Initial money for the pot
- Pay to play, as poker
- Start to fill a pot
- "I'm in" indicator
- Prefix with diluvian
- Pot money?
- Stake on a table
- Entry fee?
- *M
- Upfront stake
- Get into a poker game, say
- Before, when placed before
- Prefix with bellum or meridian
- Player's fee
- Front money?
- Something to give a kitty?
- One or two poker chips, maybe
- Get the pot started
- Draw money?
- Indicate that one needs a hand?
- Throw a chip in the pot
- Pot part
- It's for starters
- Pony up, in poker
- (in poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- Prefix for cede
- Kitty "food"
- Buy a hand
- Certain entrance fee
- Type of room
- Dealer's request, perhaps
- Penny follower
- Prefix for date or cede
- Feed the pot
- What you may need to do to get a hand
- Certain pile of chips
- Room or chamber preceder
- Bellum or date preceder
- Starter for date or cede
- Poker prelude
- Kitty sweller
- Previous prefix
- Cough up for the kitty
- Pot contribution
- Cost at poker
- ___-Christum
- Beginning pot
- Sometimes it's one cent
- Kind of chamber
- Poker term
- Pot item
- Sweeten the kitty
- This precedes bellum
- Prefix with natal
- Pot ingredient?
- Price at poker
- Stake at cards
- Kitty's birth?
- ___ bellum
- Initial chip thrown in
- Before: Prefix
- Kick in a poker chip
- Date preceder
- Casino word
- Kick in a chip for a pot
- Poker necessity
- Poker fee
- A chip for a kitty
- Poker pittance
- Poker-pot item
- Poker pot, at first
- Contribute to the pot
- Something to raise at poker
- Dealer's command, at poker
- Cash for cards
- Make pots, in a way
- Sometimes its upped
- Predeal requirement
- Chip, maybe
- Poker chip, maybe
- First chips into a poker pot
- Stud player's stake
- Entrance price in poker
- Bellum beginning
- Prefix for penultimate
- Pot sweetener
- Contribute to the kitty
- Kitty's contributor
- Start at poker
- Prefix with cede or date
- Share of the cost of a venture
- Pay for a poker hand
- Bellum or meridian preceder
- Feed a kitty
- Sometimes it's a penny
- Prefix with chapel
- Word with bellum or date
- Start a poker game
- Hand price
- Pay to play, in a way
- Join a poker game
- Put up a poker chip
- Word with date or chamber
- Item for a pot
- Sweeten the pot a little?
- Contribution of a sort
- Price for poker
- Create a pot
- Poker-pot part
- Kick in, in poker
- Kitty chip
- Pay the pot
- Poker-pot builder
- Prior to: Prefix
- Homophone for auntie
- Word with room or chamber
- Payment for a hand
- Price of a stud hand
- Prepay the pot
- Put in chips
- Stud starter
- Prior (to): Prefix
- Prefix with date or nave
- Kind of room or chamber
- Expense share
- Opposite of post-
- Anagram for neat
- Wager
- ___ up (pay)
- Buy a poker hand
- Prior: Prefix
- Compulsory bet
- Penny-___ poker
- Chip in, literally
- Gamble chips
- A penny, at times
- Preceding: Prefix
- ___ up (poker term)
- Prefix for date or room
- Cost, at cards
- "Cough up," in poker
- Prefix with chamber or chapel
- Poker-pot sweetener
- Pay, at poker
- Homophone for Mame's title
- Kitty contribution
- Prefix for chamber
- Chip for the pot
- Word with bellum or meridiem
- Prefix for date or diluvian
- Room or chamber starter
- Ingredient in a pot
- Start to make a pot
- Help to create a pot
- Prefix for room or date
- Bellum preceder
- An anagram for neat
- Gaming stake
- Each player's initial contribution to the pot
- Writer leaving diamonds as down payment
- With this, for open all hours?
- Starting bet in poker
- Stake required, unlimited
- Stake poked into malignant effigy
- Stake — not post
- Neat moves, to run browser
- Hothead raised the stake
- Poker word
- Poker player's stake
- Poker bet that's not optional
- Poet's lost face, having wagered money
- Perhaps Queen Elizabeth’s initial stake
- Betting stake
- Bet volcano is elevated
- Bet linesman misses header
- Bet Italian smoker lapses back
- Before - behind
- Initial wager
- Initial contribution to the common pot
- Initial bet in a poker game
- Yours and mine
- Pitch in
- Penny-___ (rinky-dink)
- Cash on hand?
- Get in the game, perhaps
- Part of a.m
- Poker buy-in
- Initial poker payment
- Pay up to get in on
- Poker-hand starter
- Poker move
- Start a poker pot
- Kick in for a hand
- Poker-pot starter
- Poker pay-in
- Poker player's starting bet
- Pre-deal payment
- Pot filler
- Poker pot payment
- World Poker Tour contribution
- You have to be upfront with it
- Start the poker pot
- Opening chips
- Add to the kitty
- Prefix meaning "before"
- Poker price
- Poker hand starter
- Cost of a hand
- "Deal me in" indicator
- You'll get a hand for it
- Up the ___ (increase the stakes)
- Starting poker stake
- Poker ritual
- Player's payment
- Opposite of post
- Ask for a hand?
- Pre-deal chip
- Pot payment
- Penny-__ poker
- Pay to hold hands
- Cost to play a poker hand
- Up-front money
- The "a" in a.m
- Pot additive
- Poker contribution
- Place a bet
- Join the game, in a way
- AM, ... meridiem
- The A of AM
- Price for a hand
- Post's opposite
- Post opposite
- Poker cost
- Money for the pot
- It can be upped
- Initial payment in a poker game
- Hand cost
- Charge for a hand delivery?
- Cause a pot to have a chip in it?
- Card player's stake
- Blue chip, perhaps
- You're out unless you put this in
- Up-front poker payment
- The first chip, usually
- Stake in the game
- Put into the pot
- Pre-deal ritual
- Pot toss-in
- Poker wager
- Poker money
- Kitty builder
- Join the game
- It often precedes a deal
- It may precede a deal
- It leads to a deal
- Hold 'em fee
- Hand starter
- Get in on the pot
- First chip in the pot
- Dealer's call, perhaps
- Chip in a pot, maybe
- Chamber opening?
- Card-game stake
- Up the pot
- Stud fee, maybe
- Starting chip in poker
- Starting bet
- Required investment of a kind
- Raise bid, up the ...
- Prefix like pre-
- Predeal payment
- Pot content
- Player's stake
- Payment made by hand?
- Part of AM
- Opening poker contribution
- Mandatory bet in poker
- Kitty food?
- It gets the pot going
- Indicate you're in
- Hold 'em opener
- Had chips, say
- Gambling stake
- Gambler's bet
- Folder's minimum loss
- Feed the kitty a penny?
- Entry fee of a sort
- Deserve a hand?
- Cost of staying in
- Charge for hand delivery?
- Certain payment
- Before: Lat
- Before, to Brutus
- Amount preceding bets
- You might add it to the pot
- World Poker Tour payment
- Venture capital?
- Up-front payment
- Up the ___ (make the stakes bigger)
- Throw in a chip
- Texas Hold 'Em start
- Texas Hold 'em fee
- Stud buy-in
- Start a Texas hold 'em hand
- Start a poker hand
- Stake in a pot
- Show interest in a deal
- Required bet, in poker
- Required bet in a poker game
- Put in some chips
- Pot booster
- Poker pot input
- Poker pot builder
- Poker pitch-in
- Poker game starter
- Poker chip, sometimes
- Poker chip-in
- Penny bet
- Pay-to-play fee
- Pay for play
- Part of a poker pot
- Opening poker bet
- Latin preposition
- Join the poker game
- It may follow a cut
- Initial poker chip
- Initial contribution to a poker pot
- Hand requirement
- Guts payment
- Get into the game, in a way
- Game admission
- Gambler's obligation
- Forced bet
- First chip, maybe
- First chip in a pot
- Early bet
- Deal prelude, often
- Cut follower, often
- Cost to get in on the deal
- Cost to be dealt in
- Cost for a deal?
- Chip that starts a pot
- Card game stake
- Alternative to blinds
- Advance of a sort
- A chip, sometimes
- A chip before the deal
- You're out until you put this in
- You're out until this is put in
- You're not in until it's in
- What you put into a pot
- What you pay to play
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ante \An"te\, n. (Poker Playing) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
Ante \An"te\, v. t. & i. To put up (an ante). also ante up.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1838 (n.), 1846 (v.), American English poker slang, apparently from Latin ante "before," from PIE *anti- "facing opposite, against," with derivatives meaning "in front of, before; end" (cognates: Sanskrit antah "end, border, boundary," Hittite hanti "opposite," Greek anta, anten "opposite," anti "over against, opposite, before;" Old Lithuanian anta "on to;" Gothic anda "along;" Old English and- "against;" German ent- "along, against"), from root *ant- "front, forehead."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A price or cost, as in up the ante. 2 (context poker English) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards. vb. 1 To pay the ante in poker. Often used ''ante up''. 2 To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
WordNet
n. (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
v. place one's stake
Wikipedia
Ante or Antes may refer to:
- Ante (poker), a forced bet in the game of poker
- Ante (name), Croatian form of the given name Anthony
- The Latin word ante, meaning "before", which is used in many Latin phrases
- A prefix indicating "before" as in antebellum, "before a war"
- Sivry-Ante, a municipality in the Marne department of France with two villages: Ante and Sivry-Ante
- Antes (people)
- Antes (surname)
Ante is a Croatian male first name. It is a common Croatian given name which is cognate to the name Anthony.
Usage examples of "ante".
Id tulit factum graviter Indutiomarus, suam gratiam inter suos minui, et, qui iam ante inimico in nos animo fuisset, multo gravius hoc dolore exarsit.
Hac habita contione et ad extremam orationem confirmatis militibus, ne ob hanc causam animo permoverentur neu quod iniquitas loci attulisset id virtuti hostium tribuerent, eadem de profectione cogitans quae ante senserat legiones ex castris eduxit aciemque idoneo loco constituit.
Erat una cum ceteris Dumnorix Aeduus, de quo ante ab nobis dictum est.
Metimo-lo coche na cuneta, e a mina muller e mdis eu temos que chegar a Vigo canto antes.
Itaque cum copiis ad eundem pontem contendit equitatumque tantum procedere ante agmen imperat legionum, quantum cum processisset, sine defatigatione equorum in eadem se reciperet castra.
The distinguished jurists said it's different from upping the ante by bringing a weapon along to assist the bad guy in his criminal endeavor.
But chef Tripp Mauldin, previously at Michael Mina and the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, who arrived in mid-2005, has upped the culinary ante in a big way, offering fabulous crispy roast chicken with summer corn, chanterelles, lardoons, baby potatoes, and jus, outstanding burgers, and tasty seafood such as King salmon with arugula salad, heirloom tomatoes, olives, basil, and parmesan.
Nam Marcellus proximo anno, cum impugnaret Caesaris dignitatem, contra legem Pompei et Crassi rettulerat ante tempus ad senatum de Caesaris provinciis, sententiisque dictis discessionem faciente Marcello, qui sibi omnem dignitatem ex Caesaris invidia quaerebat, senatus frequens in alia omnia transiit.
Interim ad Labienum per Remos incredibili celeritate de victoria Caesaris fama perfertur, ut, cum ab hibernis Ciceronis milia passuum abesset circiter LX, eoque post horam nonam diei Caesar pervenisset, ante mediam noctem ad portas castrorum clamor oreretur, quo clamore significatio victoriae gratulatioque ab Remis Labieno fieret.
Ante id oppidum planities circiter milia passuum tria in longitudinem patebat: reliquis ex omnibus partibus colles mediocri interiecto spatio pari altitudinis fastigio oppidum cingebant.
Ille vero nichil hujus generis malebat, manibus ante oculos passis, ne mulieris formositatem adspiceret: postea illum magica percussit arte, at mortuum efferebat inde cum fletibus et vagitibus, et me per timorem expulit ad ostium magni fluminis, velivoli, porro in nave, in qua te peperi, vix post dies huc Athenas vecta sum.
Se eu passasse antes ou depois, ou se o Manduca esperasse algumas horas para morrer, nenhuma nota aborrecida viria interromper as melodias da minha alma.
Gaudentius pictor fqm Magistri Franchini Vallis Ugiae habitator Varalli, tabet sedimen unum cum domo una magna plodata et alia contigua peleis, et curte ante, et curteto ad plateam putei, cui cohoeret Franciscus Draghettus sive de Boglia et strata, et soror Catarina de Pioldo.
Cenabenses paulo ante mediam noctem silentio ex oppido egressi flumen transire coeperunt.
Pierre told them, joyfully, of attacks on the Cabora Bassa dam on the Zambezi which had delayed that project of exploitation for so many years, upping the ante intolerably for that tiny peasant empire Portugal.