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▪ I. gambling, vbl. n.|ˈgæmblɪŋ|
[f. gamble v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb. gamble.
1784[see b]. 1792Looker-on No. 21 ⁋6 She had an in-bred abhorrence of gambling. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Sept. 578/1 Their gamblings, dissipations. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. viii. (1879) 156 Robberies are a natural consequence of universal gambling. 1897Westcott Chr. Aspects of Life 231 The State..must deal in some way with gambling.
b. attrib., as gambling-booth, gambling-club, gambling-debts, gambling-den, gambling-game, gambling-hall, gambling-hell, gambling-house, gambling-instinct, gambling-joint, gambling-machine, gambling-practice, gambling-school, gambling-spirit, gambling-table.
1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) I. ii. 71 Public and private life had become one great *gambling-booth.
1966Listener 10 Mar. 361/1 A picture of *gambling clubs in Manchester.
1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxiv, The wretch offered to buy me..of Henry, to clear off his *gambling debts.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 168 These *gambling games were kept up throughout the night.
1812Sir R. Wilson Diary I. 38 After dinner went..to the conversazione, which is a great *gambling hall, or ‘hell’ in classical terms.
1877Black Green Past. xiii, A convenient little *gambling-hell for those who had grown reckless.
1839W. Chambers Tour Belgium 71/1 The town authorities relaxed, and the present elegant *gambling-houses have been erected. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. liv. 161 A man who keeps a gambling-house is the proprietor of an unlawful establishment.
1890Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 141 The Republic appeals..to the *gambling instinct in human nature.
1901S. E. White Westerners xiii. 94 Bunco men can clean him out in a *gambling joint. 1925B. Travers Mischief v, Who does Captain Dumfoil expect to find running a gambling joint? The Archbishop of Canterbury?
1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. iii. 101 *Gambling-machines and switch⁓backs.
1784Cowper Tiroc. 246 Some sneaking virtue lurks in him, no doubt, Where neither strumpets' charms, nor drinking-bout, Nor *gambling practices, can find it out.
1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ii. 17 Some colliers..that made up the *gambling school in ordinary times—squatted upon their hunkers against the wall.
1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ii. 17 There is a *gambling spirit in human nature.
1852M. Eastman Aunt Phillis's Cabin 210 He fancied he would find happiness..at the *gambling table. 1857C. Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. i. 26 He's..croupier at a gambling-table. 1891H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1895) xxxiii. 639 Whenever they have money, no matter how obtained, they generally drop the most of it at the gambling-tables.
▪ II. ˈgambling, ppl. a.
[See gamble v.]
That gambles or plays for high stakes; orig. that plays unfairly, that cheats at play.
1726Whole Art & Myst. Mod. Gaming 111 The very Heads of such Families may not improperly be call'd the Game of (what they with a just Derision of their own Vileness term) the Gambling Fraternity. 1775Ash, Gambling (p.a. from gamble), gaming, cheating by unfair methods of play. |