pioche
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pioche f (plural pioches)
- pickaxe
- (card games) stock (stack of undealt cards made available to the players)
- (informal, by extension) chance, luck
- mauvaise pioche ― short straw
Further reading edit
- “pioche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.