Related Clues:

• You're out until this is put in
• It may precede a deal
• Up-front amount, in poker
• Banqueted
• Filled up on
• Put away the dishes?
• Stake in the game
• Absorbed, in a way
• Game starter
• Bore, as a cost
• A couple of chips, maybe
• Was corrosive
• Had one's cake
• Had a cow?
• It may follow a cut