crap

(gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.


forecast

From Middle English forecasten, forcasten, equivalent to fore- + cast.
The noun is from Middle English forecast, forcast.


pencil

Tok Pisin: pensil

→ Bole: pensur

→ Central Dusun: pinsil

→ Central Melanau: pisil

→ Dhivehi: ފަންސުރު (fan̊suru)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: بِنْسِل (pinsil, binsil) (obsolete)

→ Hausa: fensir

→ Hindi: पेंसिल (pensil), पेन्सिल (pensil)

→ Iban: pinsil

→ Indonesian: pènsil

→ Maguindanao: pinsil

or via Tok Pisin <i class="Latn mention" lang="tpi">pensil</i>

→ Maia: pensil (or via Tok Pisin pensil)

→ Malay: pensel

→ Malayalam: പെൻസിൽ (peṉsil)

→ Marshallese: pinjeļ

→ Pennsylvania German: Bensil

→ Scottish Gaelic: peansail

→ Swahili: penseli

→ Swazi: ípénseli

→ Tagalog: pensil

→ Tausug: pinsil

→ Telugu: పెన్సిలు (pensilu)

→ Welsh: pensil, pensel

→ Xhosa: ípénsile

→ Yoruba: pẹ́ńsù

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pincil (see the variant pincel, which gave rise to Modern French pinceau (“paintbrush”)), from Latin pēnicillum, diminutive of pēniculus (“brush”), itself a diminutive of pēnis (“tail; penis”). Not related to pen.

And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

power of the pencil
power of the pencil#English

(gambling) Ellipsis of power of the pencil.


accumulator

From Latin accumulātor, agent noun of accumulō (“pile up”), accumulate + -or.

The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.

2000, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of Records 2000, Demco Media, →ISBN:

(gambling) A collective bet on successive events, with both stake and winnings being carried forward to accumulate progressively.


book

Sranan Tongo: buku

Tok Pisin: buk
→ Rotokas: vuku

→ Chichewa: buku

→ Hawaiian: puke

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Maori: pukapuka (with reduplication)

→ Marshallese: bok

→ Motu: buka

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Shona: bhuku

→ Somali: buugga

i

possibly also from Afrikaans <i class="Latn mention" lang="af">boek</i>

→ Sotho: buka (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

→ Zulu: ibhuku (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

have more chins than a Chinese phone book

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).


pit

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

he who digs a pit for others falls in himself

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.


bank

en-noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

→ Albanian: bankë

→ Assamese: বেংক (beṅko)

→ Bengali: ব্যাংক (bêṅko)

→ Bislama: bang

→ Bole: banki

→ Burmese: ဘဏ် (bhan)

→ Chichewa: banki

→ Fijian: baqe

→ Gujarati: બેંક (beṅk)

→ Hausa: banki

→ Hawaiian: panakō

→ Hindi: बैंक (baiṅk)

→ Indonesian: bank

→ Japanese: バンク (banku)

→ Kamba: mbengi

→ Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ (byāṅk)

→ Kikuyu: bengi

→ Luhya: ebank

→ Maori: pēke

→ Marathi: बँक (bĕṅka)

→ Meru: mbengi

→ Nepali: बैंक (baiṅka)

→ Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕ (baiṅk)

→ Swahili: benki

→ Tamil: வங்கி (vaṅki)

→ Telugu: బ్యాంకు (byāṅku)

→ Thai: แบงก์ (bɛ́ng)

→ Tongan: pangikē

→ Welsh: banc

→ Urdu: بینک (baiṅk)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.

der

(gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.


bank

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

(games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling


bank

nl-noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

banken (plural)
bankje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bank

→ Aukan: banku

→ Caribbean Hindustani: bánk

→ Malay: bank

Indonesian: bank

→ Central Dusun: bank

→ Central Melanau: bank

→ Makasar: bank

→ Javanese: bang

→ Sundanese: bank

→ Papiamentu: banki (dated)

→ Saramaccan: bánku

→ Sranan Tongo: bangi

→ Trió: banku

→ West Frisian: bank

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

(games, gambling) the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling


bank

bankok (plural)
bank (nominative singular)
bankok (nominative plural)
bankot (accusative singular)
bankokat (accusative plural)
banknak (dative singular)
bankoknak (dative plural)
bankkal (instrumental singular)
bankokkal (instrumental plural)
bankért (causal-final singular)
bankokért (causal-final plural)
bankká (singular translative)
bankokká (plural translative)
bankig (singular terminative)
bankokig (plural terminative)
bankként (essive-formal singular)
bankokként (essive-formal plural)
bankban (inessive singular)
bankokban (inessive plural)
bankon (singular superessive)
bankokon (plural superessive)
banknál (adessive singular)
bankoknál (adessive plural)
bankba (illative singular)
bankokba (illative plural)
bankra (singular sublative)
bankokra (plural sublative)
bankhoz (allative singular)
bankokhoz (allative plural)
bankból (elative singular)
bankokból (elative plural)
bankról (delative singular)
bankokról (delative plural)
banktól (ablative singular)
bankoktól (ablative plural)
banké (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bankoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bankéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bankokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bankom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bankjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bankod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bankjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bankja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bankjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bankunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bankjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bankotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bankjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bankjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bankjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)


bank

bank (nominative singular)
banki (nominative plural)
banku (genitive singular)
banków (genitive plural)
bankowi (dative singular)
bankom (dative plural)
bank (accusative singular)
banki (accusative plural)
bankiem (instrumental singular)
bankami (instrumental plural)
banku (locative singular)
bankach (locative plural)
banku (singular vocative)
banki (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English bank, French banque, German Bank, ultimately from Lombardic bank.

trzymać bank

(gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)


see

en-verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

sees (present singular third-person)
seeing (participle present)
saw (past)
seen (dialectal past)
seent (dialectal past)
seed (dialectal past)
seen (participle past)
seent (dialectal participle past)
seed (dialectal participle past)
saw (dialectal participle past)
see (infinitive)

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

that which has been seen cannot be unseen

there are none so blind as those who will not see

there's none so blind as those who will not see

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.

(gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.


AP

en-noun

AP (countable and uncountable, plural APs)

(countable, gambling) Initialism of advantage player.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

der

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

If one leg from your 2-way parlay pushes and the other wins, your parlay bet wins and is paid off as if it's a straight bet (paying -110 or whatever the odds were).

2020, Swain Scheps, Sports Betting For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 265:

(gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).


save

en-verb

save (third-person singular simple present saves, present participle saving, simple past and past participle saved)

saves (present singular third-person)
saving (participle present)
saved (participle past)
saved (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sl̥h₂-wós
Proto-Italic *salawos
Latin salvus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin salvō
Latin salvāre
Old French sauverbor.
Middle English saven
English save
From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”).

etymon

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

to save a fiver

(transitive, gambling, slang, archaic) To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.


overlay

en-verb

overlay (third-person singular simple present overlays, present participle overlaying, simple past and past participle overlaid or overlayed)

overlays (present singular third-person)
overlaying (participle present)
overlaid (participle past)
overlaid (past)
overlayed (participle past)
overlayed (past)

/ˌəʊ.vəˈleɪ/

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

[…] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.

1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934:

(transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.


overlay

/ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/

(gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.


race

en-noun

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

cog

Your odds are sometimes significantly better with video keno […] But because video keno plays so much faster, you're likely to lose more money over a given period. Live keno races start every 10 minutes, but you can make 100 bets on a video version in the same amount of time.

2022, Kevin Blackwood, Swain Scheps, “Striking the Mother Lode: Keno and Bingo”, in Casino Gambling For Dummies, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons:


bug

First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:
# Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh bwgwl ("threat", older "fear")) or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)). Or, from a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
# Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see sċearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.

cog

given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

Because many illegal slot-machine operators here and abroad do not like to give the slot-machine player even one chance to hit the jackpot or the big bonus, they make use of a "bug." This is a small, flat half-circle of iron about an inch long, which looks something like a bug.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 394:

(gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.

Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.

1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 195:

Fargo had been in a saloon in Kansas when a man was caught using a bug. Made of steel and shaped like a money clip with two sharp ends, the bug was jammed under a table and held cards the bug's owner palmed until they were needed.

2006, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman #299: Dakota Danger:

(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.


rake

From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”).
cognates
The English word is cognate with Danish rage (chiefly regional), Middle Dutch rāke, rēke (modern Dutch raak, reek (both regional), riek (“pitchfork, rake”)), Middle Low German rāke, racke (modern German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”)), Old High German rehho, rech (Middle High German reche, modern German Rechen (“rake”)), Old Norse reka (“shovel”) (modern Icelandic reka (“shovel”)), Old Saxon recho, Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“rake; (long) straight section of a road”)).

cog

(by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.

(gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

(intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.


hold

Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).

der+

2002, "Reality", “The Scorecard For Bookmakers”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2015-04-27:

The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.

(gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.

2012, Sarah Fortnum, “Melbourne Cup 2012 From The Bookie’s Perspective”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2012-11-12:

As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015

(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.


spread

en-noun

spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)

From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.

cog

College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread. The spread represents the predicted difference between the two teams in the final score of the game.

2015 April 10, John Paul Rollert, “Vegas Odds”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-20:

(gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.


split

→ Irish: spliota

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

cog

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">splatten</i> (“to split”)

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.


shape

en-noun

shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)

From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun.
The noun is cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”). The verb is cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian Bokmål skape (“create”). Doublet of -ship.

cog

A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings, page 76:


shoot

en-verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

shoots (present singular third-person)
shooting (participle present)
shot (past)
shot (participle past)
shotten (participle past rare)
shoot (infinitive)

→ Catalan: xut

→ Greek: σουτ (sout)

→ Hijazi Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ North Levantine Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ Persian: شوت (šut)

desc

→ Portuguese: chuto, chute (Brazil), chutar

→ Romanian: șut

→ Vietnamese: sút

From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

(+ partitive object when injuring or genitive object when killing) ampua

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.

1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:

To launch a projectile.
(gambling) To throw dice.


flat

From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.

inh

He would slip in his six-ace flats, shaved dice that were made to bring up sevens. He'd throw them just long enough to get well, and then replace them with legitimate cubes.

2005, Fred Cicetti, Local Angles: The Big News in Small Towns, page 78:

(gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.


stick

en-noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

→ Catalan: estic

→ Italian: stick

→ Korean: 스틱 (seutik)

→ Portuguese: stique, estique

→ Sranan Tongo: tiki

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.

der

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.

(slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)


handle

desctree

→ Japanese: ハンドル (handoru)
→ Hokkien: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh)
→ Sakizaya: handulu

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

The daily handle of a Las Vegas casino is typically millions of dollars.

For a casino table game,the handle is difficult to determine, as it consists of all the bets made in every game, whether by chip or by cash play.

2001, William Norman Thompson, Gambling in America: an encyclopedia of history, issues, and society, →ISBN, page 421:

Note here, however, that the casino's "edge" (its expected value per unit bet, or, in casino jargon, the house p.c.) in table games is expressed as a percentage of the handle and not as a percentage of the drop (even though these might sometimes be the same).

2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel industry economics: a guide for financial analysis, →ISBN, page 139:

The results for the dog racing model indicate that increases in lottery sales and decreases in horse racing handle and casino revenues in the state in question statistically increase dog racing handle.

2007, Douglas M. Walker, The economics of casino gambling, →ISBN, page 77:

(gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.

(horse racing, gambling) The amount wagered in the various pari-mutuel pools for a particular event or events.


long

en-adj

long (comparative longer or more long, superlative longest or most long)

longer (comparative)
more long (comparative)
longest (superlative)
most long (superlative)

low

antonym(s) of “having much distance from one point to another”

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.

ау

he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long

(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.


dark

dark (comparative darker, superlative darkest)

darker (comparative)
darkest (superlative)

From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).

donker

having an absolute or relative lack of light

the darkest hour is just before the dawn

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke — a moral tale though gay

(gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.


short

en-adj

short (comparative shorter, superlative shortest)

shorter (comparative)
shortest (superlative)

tall

antonym(s) of “having a small distance between ends or edges”

tall

antonym(s) of “of a person, of comparatively little height”

long

antonym(s) of “cricket, of a fielder or fielding position, relatively close to the batsman”

long

antonym(s) of “financial position expecting falling value”

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognates
shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.

(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.


啄

drive a hard bargain
drive a hard bargain

(Hokkien, business, gambling) to drive a hard bargain; to economically take advantage of; to exploit economically; to penny-pinch; to profiteer; to swindle; to cheat; to be stingy/miserly with (such as overpricing to favor sellers or undervaluing to favor buyers)


mark

mark (indefinite nominative singular)
marks (genitive indefinite singular)
marken (definite nominative singular)
markens (definite genitive singular)
marker (indefinite nominative plural)
markers (genitive indefinite plural)
markerna (definite nominative plural)
markernas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).


寶

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 宀 (“house”) + 𤣩 (“jade”) + 貝 (“cowry”) – treasures in a house.
The phonetic component 缶 (OC *puʔ) was added to the character in bronze inscriptions.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pəw (“price”); cognate with Burmese အဖိုး (a.hpui:, “price”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Peiros and Starostin (1996) also compares it to Tibetan སྤུས (spus, “goods”). Sagart (1999) relates it to 富 (OC *pɯɡs, “rich”). Schuessler (2007) proposes that it could be the same word as 保 (OC *puːʔ, “to take care of; to consider something precious”).

och-l

宝
*寳
珤
𤥖
㻄
𡧖
宲
𡩧
𡧰
寚
𪧬
𡪓
𡫷
𤥯
𤨷
𠋾
𠍙
𢉣
𢉔
𢉹
𫴫
𫴦
𫴅
𡫿
𡫷
𫳽
𭔟
靌
𩇉


注

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjos): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).
Perhaps cognate with 枓, whose original meaning is "spoon, ladle".

Han compound

賭注

赌注


漚

沤
吽
沤
沤
𣧥
臭
𣏓
𩈏
腐
惡

(Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, gambling) to stake bets with the money won and earned in the match to get double or even more


子

子 (canonical)
ko (romanization)
人 (counter)

⟨ko₁⟩ → */kʷo/ → /ko/
From Old Japanese, attested in the Kojiki (712 CE) and the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE), two of the oldest examples of written Japanese.
Cognate with 蚕 (ko, “silkworm”) and possibly 小 (ko, “little”, diminutive prefix).
Possibly cognate with Goguryeo 仇 (*gu), which appears in an ancient place name with an apparent meaning of child.

お子さん: child

when addressing or referring to someone else's

合いの子

child of racial different parent; hybrid organism; something with the qualities of two other things, combination

芋の子

a smaller tuber branching from another potato

(hanafuda, card games, by extension, board games, gambling) person who is dealt cards


handbook

1814, from hand + book, or perhaps a reintroduction of Middle English hond book, hondebooke, from Old English handbōc (“handbook”), or a calque of German Handbuch (“handbook”). Compare Dutch handboek, Danish håndbog, Swedish handbok.

Coordinate term: sportsbook

The extent of the business done in this line is not understood by those who have not looked into it. In New York there are 50 pool rooms and 500 handbooks; in East St. Louis, 20 handbooks; in Chicago, 5 pool rooms and 200 handbooks; […]

1916, U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce, Prevention of Transmission of Race-gambling Bets, page 23:

Persons subject to his rule can be found operating, in addition to the wire service, wire service relays, handbooks, gambling houses, prostitution establishments, coin-operated device companies, bars, restaurants, night clubs, motels, […]

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings:

(US, gambling) A place where illicit bets can be placed.


纜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·raːms): semantic 糹 (“silk”) + phonetic 覽 (OC *ɡ·raːmʔ).
Note similarities with 欄 (OC *ɡ·raːn, “railing, balustrade”); see there for more.

Han compound

(gambling, originally Cantonese) martingale (gambling strategy) (Classifier: 條／条 c)


粒

Not attested until a text from the Muromachi period with the spelling ツブ (tsubu).
An earlier form 粒 (tsubi) exists, which might have been the predecessor to this word; both must have been ultimately derived from a source cognate to つぶら (tsubura, “the state of being round and small”, obsolete).


莊

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsraŋ): semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯 (OC *ʔsraŋs).

Han compound

莊閒／庄闲


talo

From Proto-Philippine *talu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talu.


閒

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 門 (“door”) + 月 (“moon”) – moonlight peeking through a door – interstice; space (original character of 間).
Karlgren (1957) and Baxter (1992) connect this word with 間 (OC *kreːn, “interstice time”).
Alternatively, Pulleyblank (1973) suggests that it is cognate with 暇 (OC *ɡraːs, “to be at leisure”).
Schuessler (2007) considers this unrelated to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns), and instead proposes that this is borrowed from Tai languages, akin to Thai คร้าน (kráan, “lazy; indolent”). 懶 (OC *raːnʔ, “lazy”) may be a colloquial reflex of the same word (ibid.).


canoe

→ German: Kanu

→ Irish: canú

Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.

(gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

The honest casino operator obtains it either by levying a direct charge or by extracting a favorable P.C. (percentage) […]

1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page 321:

[…] but in the long run, the casino's PC (percentage) for casino games will erode your bankroll.

1997, Benny J. Berry, Gambling's Greatest Secrets Revealed:


cash

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

→ Georgian: ქეში (keši)

→ Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)

→ Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)

→ Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)

→ Russian: кэш (kɛš)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: ке̏ш

Latin script: kȅš

→ Swedish: cash

→ Wu: 開許／开许 (¹khe-shiu)

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.

2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:

(countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.


Nassau

Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.

(golf, gambling) A wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.


pot

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.


tern

PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Late Middle English terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).
The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.

der

And yet, now even, if Madonna willed, / She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery, / And better all things.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 319:

(dated or obsolete) A thing with three components; a set of three things.

(gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.


heater

→ Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.


score

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

der

Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.

2013, Arnold Snyder, Big Book of Blackjack:

(gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.


score

en-verb

score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)

scores (present singular third-person)
scoring (participle present)
scored (participle past)
scored (past)
score (infinitive)

→⇒ Irish: scóráil

[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!

2005, Shannon Nash, For the Love of Money, page 215:

(transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.

To obtain something desired.
To win money by gambling.


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.


exotic

en-adj

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

more exotic (comparative)
most exotic (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

مجلوب

foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign

(gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.


pea

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

(US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

Nevada casinos are fleeced out of millions of dollars yearly by agents (cheats acting as players) in collusion with crooked Black Jack dealers and pit bosses.

1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page 108:

en:cheater with insider help in gambling

(gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.


chip

→ Catalan: xip

→ Greek: τσιπ (tsip)

→ Italian: chip

→ Korean: 칩 (chip)

desc

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ (chips, chip)

→ Hungarian: csip, csipsz

→ Turkish: cips, çip

→ Yiddish: טשיפּל (tshipl)

→ Welsh: tsip

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

cog

If the second player does raise three chips, and all the other players drop, the player who opened may stay in by putting three more chips in the pot, for then he will have put in precisely as many chips as the second player.

2002, Albert H. Moorehead, Hoyle′s Rules of Games, page 46:

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.


katsoa

katson (first-person indicative present singular)
en katso (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen katsonut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole katsonut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
katsot (indicative present second-person singular)
et katso (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet katsonut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole katsonut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
katsoo (indicative present singular third-person)
ei katso (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on katsonut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole katsonut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
katsomme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme katso (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme katsoneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole katsoneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
katsotte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette katso (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette katsoneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole katsoneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
katsovat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät katso (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat katsoneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole katsoneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
katsotaan (indicative passive present)
ei katsota (indicative negative passive present)
on katsottu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole katsottu (indicative negative passive perfect)
katsoin (first-person indicative past singular)
en katsonut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin katsonut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut katsonut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
katsoit (indicative past second-person singular)
et katsonut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit katsonut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut katsonut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
katsoi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei katsonut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli katsonut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut katsonut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
katsoimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme katsoneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme katsoneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet katsoneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
katsoitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette katsoneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte katsoneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet katsoneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
katsoivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät katsoneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat katsoneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet katsoneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
katsottiin (indicative passive past)
ei katsottu (indicative negative passive past)
oli katsottu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut katsottu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
katsoisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en katsoisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin katsonut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi katsonut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
katsoisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et katsoisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit katsonut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi katsonut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
katsoisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei katsoisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi katsonut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi katsonut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
katsoisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme katsoisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme katsoneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi katsoneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
katsoisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette katsoisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte katsoneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi katsoneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
katsoisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät katsoisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat katsoneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi katsoneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
katsottaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei katsottaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi katsottu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi katsottu (conditional negative passive perfect)
katso (imperative present second-person singular)
älä katso (imperative negative present second-person singular)
katsokoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön katsoko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon katsonut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko katsonut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
katsokaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme katsoko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
katsokaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää katsoko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
katsokoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt katsoko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot katsoneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko katsoneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
katsottakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön katsottako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon katsottu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko katsottu (imperative negative passive perfect)
katsonen (first-person potential present singular)
en katsone (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen katsonut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene katsonut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
katsonet (potential present second-person singular)
et katsone (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet katsonut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene katsonut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
katsonee (potential present singular third-person)
ei katsone (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee katsonut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene katsonut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
katsonemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme katsone (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme katsoneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene katsoneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
katsonette (plural potential present second-person)
ette katsone (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette katsoneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene katsoneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
katsonevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät katsone (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät katsoneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene katsoneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
katsottaneen (passive potential present)
ei katsottane (negative passive potential present)
lienee katsottu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene katsottu (negative passive perfect potential)
katsoa (infinitive infinitive-i)
katsova (active participle present)
katsottava (participle passive present)
katsoakseni (first-person possessive singular)
katsoaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
katsoaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
katsoaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
katsoakseen (possessive third-person)
katsoaksensa (possessive third-person)
katsonut (infinitive-i-long past)
katsottu (infinitive-i-long past)
katsoessa (inessive second-person)
katsottaessa (inessive second-person)
katsoma (agent)
katsoessani (first-person possessive singular)
katsoessamme (first-person plural possessive)
katsoessasi (possessive second-person singular)
katsoessanne (plural possessive second-person)
katsoessaan (possessive third-person)
katsoessansa (possessive third-person)
katsomaton (inessive negative second-person)
katsoen (instructive second-person)
katsomassa (inessive third-person)
katsomasta (elative third-person)
katsomaan (illative third-person)
katsomalla (adessive third-person)
katsomatta (abessive third-person)
katsoman (instructive third-person)
katsottaman (instructive third-person)
katsominen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
katsomaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
katsomaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
katsomaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
katsomaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
katsomaisillaan (possessive third-person)
katsomaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈkɑ̝ts̠o̞ɑ̝(ʔ)]

From Proto-Finnic *kaccodak. Cognate to Estonian katsuma.
* (to regard, deem): Semantic loan, ultimately from Latin videō.

(gambling, transitive) to see; to call (to match another player's bet)


whale

From Middle English whale, from Old English hwæl (“whale”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz (“whale”) (compare German Wal, Swedish val, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hval, Norwegian Nynorsk kval; compare also Dutch walvis, West Frisian walfisk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) (compare German Wels, Latin squalus (“big sea fish”), Old Prussian kalis, Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀 (kara, “kind of fish”)).

These are often no-limit games as maximum bets cramp a whale’s style.

2003, Jeff Wuorio, How to Buy and Sell (Just About) Everything:

A handful of the richest whales routinely play for $200,000 a hand. Australian media mogul Kerry Packer not only regularly bets that much, but has plunked down $200,000 bets for the dealer as a form of a tip.

2004, Norm Clarke, Vegas Confidential: Norm! Sin City's Ace Insider 1,000 Naked Truths, Hot Spots and Cool Stuff:

The high roller who had the most ferocious reputation for trying to run the business of the casinos where he played, before he died on December 26, 2006, was Kerry Packer. In the casino world, Packer was the Prince of Whales.

2008, Deke Castleman, Whale Hunt in the Desert:

(gambling, figuratively) A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.


prop

proposition player
proposition player#English

(gambling, informal) Short for proposition player.


drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

What the first column in the table shows you is how much the casinos won as a percentage of the drop. For example, on the roulette table for every $100 that went into the drop box the casino wonj $22.70 or 22.70%. […] In other words, the drop tells you how many chips were bought at that table, but it doesn't tell you how many bets were made with those chips.

1996, Steve Bourie, Anthony Curtis [et al.], American Casino Guide, Dania, Fla.: Casino Vacations, published 1997, →ISBN, page 12:

An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).

(gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.


drop

en-verb

drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)

drops (present singular third-person)
dropping (participle present)
dropped (participle past)
dropped (past)
dropt (archaic participle past)
dropt (archaic past)

From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).

спадам

to decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.

laskea

to move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards — see also lower

laskea

to lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume

But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.

1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle, page 219:

(intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.


over

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, a comparative form of *upo.
Akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Danish over, Norwegian over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Faroese yvir, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar), Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári).
Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.

(gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.


tong

Borrowed from Hokkien, possibly either:
* 當／当 (tong, “to bear; to take responsibility; to match equally”) as recorded in Barclay (1923) in Douglas (1873), where "the person who supplies a private gambling party with room, cards, and food, (customarily) receives a percentage of the winnings" as per Barclay (1923).
* 東／东 (tong, “host”, literally “east”) according to Manuel (1948) as in 做東／做东 (chòe-tong / chò-tong, “to act as a host”) or 作東／作东 (chok-tong) as recorded in Douglas (1873), because it was customary in China for the host to sit on the east side of the room or table when receiving a guest, who usually stays on the west side, as per Manuel (1948).
Chan-Yap (1980) also records a ⟨“tôŋ”⟩ (POJ: tong), which she described as 'percentage cut of a gambling taken from winners', though she was not clear on which term in Hokkien that she meant by this.
Compare Ilocano tong (“bribe money”), agtong (“to give bribe money”).

(gambling) percentage cut or commission of the winnings taken from the winner/s for the banker/dealer or owner of the gambling house


under

From Middle English under, from Old English under, from Proto-Germanic *under (whence also German unter, Dutch onder, Danish and Norwegian under), from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰér (“under”) and *h₁entér (“inside”). Akin to Old High German untar (“under”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar, “within”), Latin infrā (“below, beneath”) and inter (“between, among”).

(gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such as points scored in a game, will be below a certain stated value.


press

en-noun

press (countable and uncountable, plural presses)

From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).

cog

He can even the match with a press.

The way a press works is, say you're two down after six holes; you can then start another bet (in effect another match) from the seventh hole, for the same amount, starting all square on the seventh tee.

When a side is two or more points down in the match, they may request a press.

2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Sports Betting, page 181:

(countable, golf, gambling) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.


fade

en-verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

fades (present singular third-person)
fading (participle present)
faded (participle past)
faded (past)

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

I tried to get some bets that y'all were fixin' to get married but nobody would fade me.

2016, Johnny Hughes, A Texas Beauty, Smart and Strong:

(transitive, gambling) To bet against (someone).


mechanic

From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.

der

I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.

1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 91:

It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.

1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):

(gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.

(gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.


slot

From English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). The sense of gambling game also comes from English, where it is a clipping of slot machine.

(gambling) Clipping of mesin slot (“slot, slot machine”)


placer

a third-placer

(gambling, in combination) A horse, etc. that finishes in a particular place in a race.


rack

From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.

(gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.


bong

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.
Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

cog

(gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.


one-armed bandit

en-noun

one-armed bandit (plural one-armed bandits)

From one-armed (“having only one arm”) + bandit (“one who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group; one who cheats others”), referring to the fact that the machine is operated by a single handle, and “steals” money from losing players.

compound

(originally US, gambling) A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels.


shill

Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.
Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber.
There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.
American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection.

der

There may even be a casino shill sitting adjacent to you. Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy the scenery.

2000, Dennis R. Harrison, Casino Gambling: Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know ...:


tat

(UK, gambling, slang, archaic) Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”)


dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

(gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.


todo

Borrowed from Spanish todo. Doublet of todas.

(gambling) entirely put as bet in a single game


todo

(gambling) act of betting all one's money in a single game


scalp

en-verb

scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)

scalps (present singular third-person)
scalping (participle present)
scalped (participle past)
scalped (past)

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).

The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:

(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.


concave

From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.

Coordinate term: convex

(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.


convex

Borrowed from Middle French convexe, from Latin convexus (“arched”).

Coordinate term: concave

(gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.

Of all the devices for defrauding at poker, the “shiner,” or “convex” […] Modern convexes are also considerably larger than those of former days.

2019, John Philip Quinn, Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers:

(gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.


make good

make good (third-person singular simple present makes good, present participle making good, simple past and past participle made good)

makes good (present singular third-person)
making good (participle present)
made good (participle past)
made good (past)

After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […]

1885, William Brisbane Dick, The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games:

(gambling) To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.


craps

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:

Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below

1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.


post

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

Chinese: po

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.


knap

en-verb

knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

knaps (present singular third-person)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)
knapped (past)
knap (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English knappen (“to strike (something)”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle Dutch knappen, cnappen (“to break (something) with a sharp sound, snap; to crack or crackle”) (modern Dutch knappen), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English knap, knappe (“sharp blow, strike”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from the verb (see above), or related to an ancestor of Danish knep and Swedish knäpp (“a flick, rap, snap”), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.

napauttaa

(transitive) to say (something) crisply or sharply; (intransitive) to speak crisply or sharply

(gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.


knap

'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?

a. 1659 (date written), John Cleveland, “The Publick Faith”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, […], London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], published 1687, →OCLC, page 200:

And fights vvith Money-bags as bold, / As men vvith Sand-bags did of old: / […] Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt High, and Lovv, and Slur and Knap, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 83, lines 45–46 and 51–52:

(figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.


reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:

Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."

1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:

(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.


back out

en-verb

back out (third-person singular simple present backs out, present participle backing out, simple past and past participle backed out)

backs out (present singular third-person)
backing out (participle present)
backed out (participle past)
backed out (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-back out.wav

1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III
Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.

See also: sell short


across the board

Originated with horse racing, where an "across the board" bet was one which covered first, second and third on the betting board.

(gambling) Having an equal amount staked on a competitor placing first, second, or third.


get on

get on (third-person singular simple present gets on, present participle getting on, simple past got on, past participle (UK) got on or (US) gotten on)

gets on (present singular third-person)
getting on (participle present)
got on (past)
got on (UK participle past)
gotten on (US participle past)

to get on a horse or a man

(slang, archaic, transitive, gambling) To place a bet on.


pike

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

pikes (present singular third-person)
piking (participle present)
piked (participle past)
piked (past)

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

cog

I put the temporary squinch on the rum bug when I got there and piked along at a ten-cent table with the last two dollars I had.

1900, Clarence Louis Cullen, Tales of the Ex-tanks: A Book of Hard-luck Stories, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap […], →OCLC, page 339:

Not that my wife is an inveterate gambler; as a matter of fact the poor kid hasn't any card sense at all and doesn't even care for it. She only piked along because I—I compelled her to.

1920, Isabel Ostrander, “The Lure of Chance”, in How Many Cards?, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, […], →OCLC, page 188:

I found no difficulty in obtaining admission to the Navarre's long gambling room, where I "piked" by placing two-bit bets on the numbered roulette board.

1964, Gilbert Patten (“Burt L. Standish”), edited by Harriet Hinsdale, assisted by Tony London, Frank Merriwell’'s “Father”: An Autobiography, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →OCLC, page 208:

(intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.


banco

From Italian banco. Doublet of banc, bank, and bench.

Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:

(gambling) In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.


rundown

→ Spanish: rondón

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rundown.wav

Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]

I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.

1960, American Trial Lawyers Association, Convention Proceedings, page 455:

(gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.


quiniela

(gambling) A kind of bet in which the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted, but (unlike a perfecta) not necessarily in the correct order.


patent

en-noun

patent (countable and uncountable, plural patents)

The noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”) [and other forms], which is either:
* a clipping of lettre patent, lettres patente, lettres patentes [and other forms]; or
* directly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (modern French patent), a clipping of Anglo-Norman lettres patentes, Middle French lettres patentes, lettre patente, and Old French patentes lettres (“document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree”) (compare Late Latin patēns, littera patēns, litterae patentēs).
For the derivation of Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (adjective) in lettre patente, see etymology 2 below.
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

patent lettre, patent lettres, patente lettre, patente lettres

der

[ˈpʰæ̝ʔn̩t̚]

[ˈpʰe̞ɪʔn̩t̚]

(gambling) The combination of seven bets on three selections, offering a return even if only one bet comes in.


amano

From Spanish jugar mano a mano (“to play even”).


cooler

(poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.


junket

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes; food, probably made of sour milk or cream; banquet, feast.”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to "feast or banquet" by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of "pleasure-trip" (1814), and then to specifically to "trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment" by 1886 in American English.

der

(gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.


Heinz

From the H. J. Heinz Company's "57 Varieties" slogan.

(UK, gambling, slang) A full-cover bet of doubles and upwards, consisting of six selections in 57 bets.


Chip

de-noun

Chip m (strong, genitive Chips, plural Chips)

Chips (genitive)
Chips (plural)
Chip (nominative singular)
Chips (definite nominative plural)
Chips (genitive singular)
Chips (definite genitive plural)
Chip (dative singular)
Chips (dative definite plural)
Chip (accusative singular)
Chips (accusative definite plural)

(also gambling) chip (piece of plastic or metal used as a token for money, entrance tickets, etc.)


Roulette

Roulette n (strong, genitive Roulettes, plural Roulettes)

Roulettes (genitive)
Roulettes (plural)
Roulette (nominative singular)
Roulettes (definite nominative plural)
Roulettes (genitive singular)
Roulettes (definite genitive plural)
Roulette (dative singular)
Roulettes (dative definite plural)
Roulette (accusative singular)
Roulettes (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: rulett


bookmaker

From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker.

(gambling) A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.

مُرَاهِن

a person who calculates odds and accepts bets; a bookie


stripper

(gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.


talon

Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”) and Malay turun (“descend; fall”).

cog

(gambling) a kind of bet in the game sakla


stool pigeon

From the act of tying or even nailing a pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy by hunters. Alternatively, from an alteration of stale (“decoy”) + pigeon.

(slang, obsolete, gambling) A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.


shortstop

The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.

(gambling) A player who is short of money.


scratch card

(gambling) A lottery ticket containing sections covered with an opaque waxy film which may be removed by scratching to reveal symbols that show whether or not a prize has been won.


locksmith

From Middle English loksmith; equivalent to lock + smith.

(gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win


sleeper

(slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.


trifecta

The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.

2006, Vincent Conti, Thoroughbred Horse Racing Systems and Methodologies, page 9:

In a trifecta, you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.

2010, Leonard A. Asimow, Mark M. Maxwell, Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text, page 10:

(gambling) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.

troikka

bet on the first three places of a race in the order


ammo

en-noun

ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)

(slang, games, gambling, uncommon) Chips or money, usually at a casino.


snake eyes

From the resemblance of the two single pips to the eyes of a snake.

Coordinate term: boxcars

It’s as if snake eyes, which should occur randomly only once every 36 times you roll a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times.

2021 June 29, Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol, “That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(gambling, dice games, idiomatic) Two ones, after rolling two dice.


salida

(gambling) money paid out to winners in excess of the winnings after each game


parada

From the feminine past participle of parar.

(gambling) stake (money laid down as a wager)


golpe

Borrowed from Spanish golpe, from Old Spanish colpe, from Late Latin colpus, syncopation of *colŭpus, alteration of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos). Doublet of gulpi.

(gambling) first prize of money given to the owner of a gambling place


parlay

en-verb

parlay (third-person singular simple present parlays, present participle parlaying, simple past and past participle parlayed)

parlays (present singular third-person)
parlaying (participle present)
parlayed (participle past)
parlayed (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-parlay.wav

The verb is derived from paroli (“cumulative bet in card games”), possibly modified under the influence of French parler (“to speak, talk”). Paroli is derived from French paroli (“double stake”), from Italian paroli, plural of parolo (first-person singular present indicative of parare (“to protect or shield (from); to prepare”), from Latin parāre, present active infinitive of parō (“to arrange, prepare; to furnish, provide”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”)) + Italian -lo (suffix meaning ‘it; this or that thing’).
The noun is derived from the verb.

der

(transitive, intransitive, gambling) To carry forward the stake and winnings from a bet on to a subsequent wager or series of wagers.


parlay

GARNETT. (Sharply.) Would someone mind telling a visitor the details of this Operation Snitch? / DENNIS. Kind of a three-horse-parlay, Cliff: Posenleben, Schweinhafen … (Eyes Prescott and Jenks.) And one other.

1947, William Wister Haines, Command Decision: Play in Three Acts, acting edition, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1974, →OCLC, act I, page 17:

They heard the placing of bets of $1, $2 and $3 and $5 "round robin parlays" on horses with names such as Ham Bone, Little Colleen, Miss Ellaneous, Fighting Thru, Papa Charlie, Dandy Foot, William Tell, Knot Hole, Betsy Marie, Poocha and Under the Rug.

1955 March 14, Michael Musmanno, Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, “Appendix: Dissenting Opinion of Musmanno, J., of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania”, in In the Supreme Court of the United States: No. 111: October Term, 1955. Isaac Chaitt, Petitioner, v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondent. Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Appendix, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lemuel B. Schofield, attorney for petitioner, page 52:

The officer's affidavit was to the effect that he and another officer had made "extensive investigation of gambling operations" locally; he had information that a local printing company "printed parlay cards which were being used for betting on college and professional football games;" [...]

1973 October 1, Frank Holt, Associate Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, “Appendix A: … Claude Earl Flaherty and Gene Whipple, Appellants v. State of Arksansas, Appellee”, in In the Supreme Court of the United States: October Term, 1973: Claude Earl Flaherty and Gene Whipple, Petitioners, v. State of Arkansas, Respondent. Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Ark.: Franklin Wilder, counsel for petitioners, published 1973, page 21:

One of the most common and important types of probability problems is what gamblers call "parlays." When you bet a parlay, you are betting on the outcome of two or more events with the stipulation that all of your selection must be right in order for you to win. [...] Most gamblers think solely of sporting events when they think of parlays. Actually, any time you figure the probability that all of a number of events (each with its own separate probability) will occur you are figuring a parlay.

2005 March, David Sklansky, “Mathematics of Parlays”, in Getting the Best of It, Las Vegas, Nev.: Two Plus Two Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Probability: The Mathematics of Gambling), page 17:

(originally US, gambling) A bet or series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward; an accumulator.


roulette wheel

(gambling) A slotted wheel that rotates horizontally; players bet on which slot the ball will stop in.


tatt

"Oh," said Killigrew, "you had the wit not to give yourselves out for sharpers?"
"Yes, sir; we used common dice; not tatts."
"You'd best keep the tatts till he's drunk," said Killigrew drily, "for I think you'll find my lord has a head on his shoulders when he's sober."

1897, Frances Heath Freshfield, The Wrothams of Wrotham Court, page 73:

(UK, gambling, slang, archaic) A die, especially one that is loaded.


on the nose

It was three o'clock. They were running the third race at Santa Anita and he had ten bucks on the nose.

1941 February, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Fun in an Artist’s Studio”, in Esquire:

I once knew a fag dip into the till—not the whole two thousand at once on the nose win or Sing Sing.[…]

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 128:

(slang, gambling, of a bet on a horse) To finish first.


miser

miser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
misant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
misé (participle past)
mise (first-person indicative present singular)
mises (indicative present second-person singular)
mise (indicative present singular third-person)
misons (first-person indicative plural present)
misez (indicative plural present second-person)
misent (indicative plural present third-person)
misais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
misais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
misait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
misions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
misiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
misaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
misai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
misas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
misa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
misâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
misâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
misèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
miserai (first-person future indicative singular)
miseras (future indicative second-person singular)
misera (future indicative singular third-person)
miserons (first-person future indicative plural)
miserez (future indicative plural second-person)
miseront (future indicative plural third-person)
miserais (conditional first-person singular)
miserais (conditional second-person singular)
miserait (conditional singular third-person)
miserions (conditional first-person plural)
miseriez (conditional plural second-person)
miseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
mise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
misions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
misiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
misent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
misasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
misasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
misât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
misassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
misassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
misassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
mise (imperative second-person singular)
misons (first-person imperative plural)
misez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Romanian: miza


kasa

kasá (canonical)
kasâ (canonical)
ᜃᜐ (Baybayin)

Borrowed from Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), from Late Latin captiāre (“to catch”).

(gambling) covering bet or acceptance of a bet


馬子

/mä²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/

/maː¹³ t͡siː³⁵/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

/mä²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/

/maː¹³ t͡siː³⁵/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

Chinese given name
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Han Dynasty
Naming taboo

During the Han Dynasty, the emperor's commode was called 虎子 (hǔzǐ). However, the grandfather of Emperor Gaozu of Tang was called 李虎 (Lǐ Hǔ). Because it was forbidden for common items to contain the given names of members of the imperial family (see Naming taboo), 虎子 was changed to 馬子／马子 (mǎzi), which morphed later into 馬桶／马桶 (mǎtǒng).

zh-m

馬子／马子 (mǎzi)

馬桶／马桶 (mǎtǒng)


panos

panos (nominative singular)
panokset (nominative plural)
panos (accusative nominative singular)
panokset (accusative nominative plural)
panoksen (accusative genitive singular)
panokset (accusative genitive plural)
panoksen (genitive singular)
panosten (genitive plural)
panoksien (genitive plural)
panosta (partitive singular)
panoksia (partitive plural)
panoksessa (inessive singular)
panoksissa (inessive plural)
panoksesta (elative singular)
panoksista (elative plural)
panokseen (illative singular)
panoksiin (illative plural)
panoksella (adessive singular)
panoksilla (adessive plural)
panokselta (ablative singular)
panoksilta (ablative plural)
panokselle (allative singular)
panoksille (allative plural)
panoksena (essive singular)
panoksina (essive plural)
panokseksi (singular translative)
panoksiksi (plural translative)
panoksetta (abessive singular)
panoksitta (abessive plural)
panoksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
panokseni (nominative singular)
panokseni (nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative nominative singular)
panokseni (accusative nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative genitive singular)
panokseni (accusative genitive plural)
panokseni (genitive singular)
panosteni (genitive plural)
panoksieni (genitive plural)
panostani (partitive singular)
panoksiani (partitive plural)
panoksessani (inessive singular)
panoksissani (inessive plural)
panoksestani (elative singular)
panoksistani (elative plural)
panokseeni (illative singular)
panoksiini (illative plural)
panoksellani (adessive singular)
panoksillani (adessive plural)
panokseltani (ablative singular)
panoksiltani (ablative plural)
panokselleni (allative singular)
panoksilleni (allative plural)
panoksenani (essive singular)
panoksinani (essive plural)
panoksekseni (singular translative)
panoksikseni (plural translative)
panoksettani (abessive singular)
panoksittani (abessive plural)
panoksineni (comitative plural)
panoksesi (nominative singular)
panoksesi (nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
panoksesi (accusative nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
panoksesi (accusative genitive plural)
panoksesi (genitive singular)
panostesi (genitive plural)
panoksiesi (genitive plural)
panostasi (partitive singular)
panoksiasi (partitive plural)
panoksessasi (inessive singular)
panoksissasi (inessive plural)
panoksestasi (elative singular)
panoksistasi (elative plural)
panokseesi (illative singular)
panoksiisi (illative plural)
panoksellasi (adessive singular)
panoksillasi (adessive plural)
panokseltasi (ablative singular)
panoksiltasi (ablative plural)
panoksellesi (allative singular)
panoksillesi (allative plural)
panoksenasi (essive singular)
panoksinasi (essive plural)
panokseksesi (singular translative)
panoksiksesi (plural translative)
panoksettasi (abessive singular)
panoksittasi (abessive plural)
panoksinesi (comitative plural)
panoksemme (nominative singular)
panoksemme (nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
panoksemme (accusative nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
panoksemme (accusative genitive plural)
panoksemme (genitive singular)
panostemme (genitive plural)
panoksiemme (genitive plural)
panostamme (partitive singular)
panoksiamme (partitive plural)
panoksessamme (inessive singular)
panoksissamme (inessive plural)
panoksestamme (elative singular)
panoksistamme (elative plural)
panokseemme (illative singular)
panoksiimme (illative plural)
panoksellamme (adessive singular)
panoksillamme (adessive plural)
panokseltamme (ablative singular)
panoksiltamme (ablative plural)
panoksellemme (allative singular)
panoksillemme (allative plural)
panoksenamme (essive singular)
panoksinamme (essive plural)
panokseksemme (singular translative)
panoksiksemme (plural translative)
panoksettamme (abessive singular)
panoksittamme (abessive plural)
panoksinemme (comitative plural)
panoksenne (nominative singular)
panoksenne (nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
panoksenne (accusative nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
panoksenne (accusative genitive plural)
panoksenne (genitive singular)
panostenne (genitive plural)
panoksienne (genitive plural)
panostanne (partitive singular)
panoksianne (partitive plural)
panoksessanne (inessive singular)
panoksissanne (inessive plural)
panoksestanne (elative singular)
panoksistanne (elative plural)
panokseenne (illative singular)
panoksiinne (illative plural)
panoksellanne (adessive singular)
panoksillanne (adessive plural)
panokseltanne (ablative singular)
panoksiltanne (ablative plural)
panoksellenne (allative singular)
panoksillenne (allative plural)
panoksenanne (essive singular)
panoksinanne (essive plural)
panokseksenne (singular translative)
panoksiksenne (plural translative)
panoksettanne (abessive singular)
panoksittanne (abessive plural)
panoksinenne (comitative plural)
panoksensa (nominative singular)
panoksensa (nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
panoksensa (accusative nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
panoksensa (accusative genitive plural)
panoksensa (genitive singular)
panostensa (genitive plural)
panoksiensa (genitive plural)
panostaan (partitive singular)
panostansa (partitive singular)
panoksiaan (partitive plural)
panoksiansa (partitive plural)
panoksessaan (inessive singular)
panoksessansa (inessive singular)
panoksissaan (inessive plural)
panoksissansa (inessive plural)
panoksestaan (elative singular)
panoksestansa (elative singular)
panoksistaan (elative plural)
panoksistansa (elative plural)
panokseensa (illative singular)
panoksiinsa (illative plural)
panoksellaan (adessive singular)
panoksellansa (adessive singular)
panoksillaan (adessive plural)
panoksillansa (adessive plural)
panokseltaan (ablative singular)
panokseltansa (ablative singular)
panoksiltaan (ablative plural)
panoksiltansa (ablative plural)
panokselleen (allative singular)
panoksellensa (allative singular)
panoksilleen (allative plural)
panoksillensa (allative plural)
panoksenaan (essive singular)
panoksenansa (essive singular)
panoksinaan (essive plural)
panoksinansa (essive plural)
panoksekseen (singular translative)
panokseksensa (singular translative)
panoksikseen (plural translative)
panoksiksensa (plural translative)
panoksettaan (abessive singular)
panoksettansa (abessive singular)
panoksittaan (abessive plural)
panoksittansa (abessive plural)
panoksineen (comitative plural)
panoksinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *panos. Equivalent to panna (“to put”) + -os.


three-up

(gambling) A gambling game played with three coins.


buster

Originally a dialectal variant of burster; later influenced by bust + -er.
The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific during three periods: in the 1930s, owing to the success of the radio series Gang Busters; in the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang; and in the 1980s, owing to the success of the movie Ghostbusters.

rebenta-

person or thing that breaks or overwhelms

Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283:

To make six-eight, natural dice, or busters, he would take unspotted dice and then grind and color only the spots he wanted.

1977, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, The Development of the Law of Gambling: 1776-1976, page 423:

(gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.


pooper

(gambling) A selection in a slot machine game that ends the picking bonus.


กิน

gin (romanization)
การกิน (abstract-noun)

From Proto-Tai *kɯɲᴬ (“to eat”). Cognate with Lao ກິນ (kin), Northern Thai ᨠᩥ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᨠᩥ᩠ᨶ, Lü ᦂᦲᧃ (k̇iin), Tai Dam ꪀꪲꪙ, Tai Nüa ᥐᥤᥢ (kin), Shan ၵိၼ် (kǐn), Ahom 𑜀𑜢𑜃𑜫 (kin), Saek กิ๋น, Zhuang gwn, Nong Zhuang gwn, Bouyei genl. Compare also Proto-Austronesian *kaən (whence Tagalog kain, Malay makan).


skinner

From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).

(gambling, slang) An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.