Gaming
['ɡeɪmɪŋ] or ['ɡemɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Game
(n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gambling, playing for money.
Edited by Della
Examples
- That very night, while yet full of gratitude and good resolves, this whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- One of the Fathers says, 'Gaming table. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He got him to the gaming-houses; and he was one of the sort that, when he once got a going there, there was no holding back. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I once heard of an Italian, who sat down at a gaming table with only a louis, (that's a foreign sovereign), in his pocket. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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