Gambling
['ɡæmblɪŋ] or ['gæmblɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); 'his gambling cost him a fortune'; 'there was heavy play at the blackjack table'.
Checker: Quincy--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gamble
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gaming, playing for money.
Editor: Maynard
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are gambling and win, signifies low associations and pleasure at the expense of others. If you lose, it foretells that your disgraceful conduct will be the undoing of one near to you.
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Examples
- The Major, the Captain, any one of those gambling men whom Madame sees would take her life for a hundred louis. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was the same with gambling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Only there's one thing I order you to avoid, which, if you do not, I'll cut you off with a shilling, by Jove; and that's gambling. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had looked on at a great deal of gambling in Paris, watching it as if it had been a disease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gambling houses had disappeared from public view. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A gambling husband! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If her aunt turned such a stony ear to the fiction of the gambling debts, in what spirit would she receive the terrible avowal of the truth? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We pass a law against race-track gambling and add to the profits from faro. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For God's sake, stop him from gambling, my dear, she said, or he will ruin himself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Gryce told me herself that it was her gambling that frightened Percy Gryce--it seems he was really taken with her at first. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- An unprincipled, gambling little jackanapes! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Tamara