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/gˈæmbəlɪŋ haʊs/ Listen

Gambling house

noun

A public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business). Synonyms: gambling den, gambling hell, gaming house.

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"Gambling house" Quotes from Famous Books

... the generality of people class as gamblers are only those who play at games of chance with cards. What are the members of the Board of Trade but gamblers? The Board of Trade is just as much a gambling house as a faro bank. Do not the members put up their (and often times other peoples') money on puts, calls, margins, and futures? Do not some poor people have to wait a long time in the "future" before they get back the money some rascal has put up and lost? ...

— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

... have certainly preferred to spend the whole evening in the family circle, but Dom Pedro urged him with so much, and such unusual kindness to accompany him to the gambling house that he consented, and at about eleven o'clock the two young men left the Praya and walked into the town beneath the soft lights of the oil lamps. The streets were deserted as usual, here and there a policeman, ...

— In Macao • Charles A. Gunnison

Words linked to "Gambling house" : gambling casino, gaming house, business, building, business establishment, casino, business enterprise, edifice, commercial enterprise, place of business