" all in "

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1: To be totally committed to something.

  * e.g.,  ... If we're gonna do it, let's do it. I'm all in. 

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2: Possibly originating with gambling games such as Texas Hold 'em style poker, where the maximum 'raise' is to bet your full stack of chips.

 [ "all in" ]

1: When you place all your eggs in one basket.

  * e.g.,  ... Jim: Yo John, how much money are you going to put in that stock 

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1: To enter all of your poker chips on one hand.

  * e.g.,  ... When he saw he had a royal flush, Muhammed Ali went all in. 

 [ "all in" ]

1:  Investing all of your holdings at once, as in a single hand of poker.

  * e.g.,  ...  You went all in on a pair of nines? 

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2:  Extremely tired, or at wit's end. (slightly archaic)

  * e.g.,  ...  I can't talk about this right now, I'm all in. 

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1: When not used in a poker game context, "all in" means that one thing is completely inside something else. No more of said object will be able to enter after this point. Often used in sexual situations.

  * e.g.,  ... Linda Tripp: "Go deeper baby, I can't even feel it." 

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1: Originally and still a poker metatphor, 'all in' has also come to mean a situation whose subject is unreservedly involved, without qualification. Fully committed. In this sense the term "all in" is almost the same as its denotative opposite, "all out," as in all-out warfare.

  * e.g.,  ... . All in means you don't stop for Sundays. All in means nobody can talk you out of it. -- (from New York Times online, October 17, 2011): Mr. Immelt’s remarks took on the tone of a halftime pep talk. He said that with a clearer regulatory structure, an increased export base and an “all-in” business climate, the United States would be able to compete on a global front. ---Note that the Times used the term 'all in' with a hyphen separating the two words, which is customary when such a term is used as a single adjective. (Compare: "Frank is just flat-out broke".) Also note that the Times put slightly distancing quotation marks around the phrase in the above Immelt citation. This probably means that the Times writer recognized the phrase as a colloquialism, not yet fully acceptable standard written English, in this extended (non-poker) usage. Some grammarians (cf. Strunk and White, THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE), object to ironic or distancing quotation marks on the theory that if a term or phrase is known to most readers, introduction or contexting is not necessary. Most likely, though, the New York Times' elaborate style sheet does not forbid such use. 

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1: From www.holdempoker.com

  * e.g.,  ... You go all-in with a queen high and some cowboy hat wearing jew busts you with a pair of threes. 

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2: Betting all your money on one hand, usually moronically.

  * e.g.,  ... 'Garry, should I go all in with a pair of sixes?' 

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1: Abet placed in poker when a player is letting the other players know that he will put his whole bank in to continue the game even though he may not be able to match with the other players have.

  * e.g.,  ... "I'm all in man, lets go, my royal will kill you.Ha Ha!" 

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1: A quite Hilarious Term used commonly in poker, and sometimes used in real life situations for a good laugh. to be all in, is to show all your chips to the players at the table, to take A GIANT risk. With all your chips in, you could very well get your ass handed to you.

  * e.g.,  ... Hugh: Im all in, pocket twos. 

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1: To explain something

  * e.g.,  ... All in all, Donald Trump needs to fix the economy and get out.