单词 | game debt |
释义 | > as lemmasgame debt game debt n. now rare a debt incurred through playing games or (esp.) gambling; a gaming debt. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > debt incurred at gambling play-debt1687 game debt1729 gambling debt1763 1729 J. Disney View Anc. Laws vii. 279 No Game-Debts shall be recoverable by the winner. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xxxiii. 366 Owing E. L. seven thousand pound for his game debts. 2000 F. Barclay & F. Santos-Granero Tamed Frontiers iii. 41 Most of them [sc. women] were treated as slaves, being transferred from one man to another as payment for game debts. < as lemmas |
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