| 单词 | strong joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrong joint b. flat joint, set joint, strong joint: see the adjectives. strong joint strong joint n. U.S. slang a crooked gambling game in which the bank or operator always wins; (also) a place where such games are played. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 1914 J. Forbes in Wage-earning Pittsburgh iv. ii. 319 The ‘strong joint’ is the device operated most extensively and the one that ‘gets the money’. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 14/1 Strong joint, unfair or cheater's game. 1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 73 Strong joint, a crooked gambling house. 1938 F. Chester Shot Full xi. 98 A ‘pick-out’. This is another form of ‘strong-joint’, or never-win game. 1963 D. W. Maurer in R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) xi. 731 Carnival workers, and especially strong-joint or flat-joint operators, have a more or less secret argot. < as lemmas |
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