Santa Barbara noun in hold ’em poker, an ace and a king as the first two cards dealt a player US,1981
An ace and a king are a Santa Barbara. The older term for that is big slick, but a few years ago there was an oil spill off the coast and the California players started called it Santa Barbara. — Thomas L. Clark, TheDictionaryofGamblingandGaming, pp. 18–19, 1987