bust

en-verb

bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust)

busts (present singular third-person)
busting (participle present)
busted (participle past)
busted (past)
bust (participle past)
bust (past)

From Middle English busten, a variant of Middle English bursten, bresten (“to burst”). Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”). More at burst.


stick

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)

sticks (present singular third-person)
sticking (participle present)
stuck (participle past)
stuck (past)
sticked (archaic participle past)
sticked (archaic past)

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.

inh

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

(intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.


stiff

en-noun

stiff (countable and uncountable, plural stiffs)

From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.

(blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.


monkey

monkey (plural monkeys or (obsolete) monkies)

monkeys (plural)
monkies (obsolete plural)

→ Chukchi: маӈкы (maṇky)

→ Coeur d'Alene: moonki

→ Irish: moncaí

→ Navajo: mágí

→ Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh

→ Tumbuka: munkhwele

→ Welsh: mwnci

Uncertain. May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”)) or earlier Old French monnekin (“monkey”), originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also Old French and Middle French monin (“monkey”). The French terms may have been borrowed from Italian monna (“monkey”), from Old Spanish mona (“female monkey”), itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon”)). However, Old French monnekin may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early Middle Dutch mannekin (a diminutive of a personal name or surname; hence, nickname, literally “miniature man”).

gl

whence Modern French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">mone</i> (“monkey”)

der

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey


penetration

en-noun

penetration (countable and uncountable, plural penetrations)

From Middle English penetracioun, from Old French penetracïon, and its source, Latin penetrātiō, from the participle stem of penetrō (“pierce”, verb). Morphologically penetrate + -ion.

(blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.


insurance

insurance (usually uncountable, plural insurances)

insurances (plural)
insuraunce (alternative)

→ Malay: insurans

/ɪnˈʃʊɹ.əns/

/ɪnˈʃʊə.ɹəns/

/ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹəns/

From the older form ensurance, see also assurance.

I only take insurance if the count is right.

(blackjack) A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.


surrender

en-verb

surrender (third-person singular simple present surrenders, present participle surrendering, simple past and past participle surrendered)

surrenders (present singular third-person)
surrendering (participle present)
surrendered (participle past)
surrendered (past)
surrendre (alternative)

Etymology tree
Middle English surrendren
English surrender
From Middle English surrendren, from Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“render”). Displaced native Old English on hand gān.

etymon

(ambitransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.


Charlie

en-noun

Charlie (usually uncountable, plural Charlies)

Charlies (plural)
Charley (alternative)
charley (alternative)
charlie (alternative)

(blackjack) The situation in some blackjack variants where a player wins automatically by showing a hand with the correct number of cards.


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”).

cog

(blackjack, slang) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.


first base

en-noun

first base (countable and uncountable, plural first bases)

(blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.


third base

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

(blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the right of the dealer, which is last to act.


anchorman

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

(blackjack) The last player in sequence, seated furthest to the right of the dealer.


spooking

spooking (countable and uncountable, plural spookings)

(blackjack, slang) The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.


bust out

en-verb

bust out (third-person singular simple present busts out, present participle busting out, simple past and past participle busted out or (colloquial) bust out)

busts out (present singular third-person)
busting out (participle present)
busted out (participle past)
busted out (past)
bust out (colloquial participle past)
bust out (colloquial past)

(blackjack, intransitive) To lose by going bust.


stand pat

stand pat (third-person singular simple present stands pat, present participle standing pat, simple past and past participle stood pat)

stands pat (present singular third-person)
standing pat (participle present)
stood pat (participle past)
stood pat (past)

Probably originally a poker phrase, with "pat" equaling "optimal", meaning that drawing more cards is unnecessary. Later the phrase came to be employed in other spheres. "Stand pat" was actively used in U.S. political campaigns of the 1900s, quickly gaining a sense of "being reactionary, resistant to dramatic changes in policy". Moreover, a noun, standpatter, was coined to denote such politicians.

After getting a hand of 20, the player stood pat.

(intransitive, blackjack) To stop hitting; to declare one's hand as final.


hit me

(blackjack, slang) Said by a player to ask the dealer to deal them another card.


cut card

(blackjack) A brightly coloured plastic card that serves to mark the point where the dealer will reshuffle the cards, to allow the player to cut the deck prior to dealing, and to prevent the bottom card from being exposed during play.


basic strategy

(blackjack) A playing strategy that offers the highest return on investment to a player who knows only his point total and the dealer's upcard.


hard hand

(blackjack) A hand of cards that are worth their face value, i.e. without any ace being counted as 11.


soft hand

(blackjack) A hand of cards that includes an ace being counted as 11.


pitch game

See pitch (“to throw”); the cards are handed out to the players.

(blackjack) A game dealt from a maximum of two decks, without the use of a shoe.


first basing

(blackjack) A form of hole carding in which a player peeks at the hole card as the dealer checks it.