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"his gambling cost him a fortune"nounthe act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)type of:
Definition that contains gambling
- house the management of a gambling house or casino
- die a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- bet the act of gambling
- clean deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
- bank act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- bank the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- stops a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- wheel game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- chicago a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- chip a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling