chuck-a-luckn.

Forms: Also chuck-luck, chuckle luck.

Etymology: apparently < chuck v.² 2 + luck n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchuck-a-ˌluck.

North American.

A gambling game played with dice. Frequently attributive.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games

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1836 in W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky (1847) 24 I thought I'd make a rise on chuck-a-luck, but you prehaps never saw such a run of luck.

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) ix. 111 A chuck-a-luck table.

1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 124 Games of hazard, such as push-pin, marbles, chuck-a-luck, heads and tails, and other like boyish pastimes.

1856 Liberator 12 Jan. XXVI. 12 Leper and Doolin got into a quarrel over a game called ‘chuckle luck’.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iv. 94 We walk down to the ‘chuck-a-luck’ board.

1879 Southern Hist. Soc. Papers VII. 489 Cards, monte, roulette, keno, faro, chuck-a-luck, and in fact every game of chance known.

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Jan. 1/4 The Chinese play ‘pie-gow’, which is alleged to be a gambling game, although difficult to prove as such. But ‘fan-tan’ and ‘chuck-luck’ are said to have been totally suppressed.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. x. 165 And a man's so sick of himself by the time he gets this far that he'd play chuck-a-luck.

1925 C. E. Mulford Cottonwood Gulch iv. 57 Chuck-a-luck gamblers.

1944 Harper's Mag. June 53/1 Several crap tables and chuck-luck layouts.

1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency ii. 15 You fancy craps, roulette, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck, or just plain whoring?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	chuck-a-luck
释义	chuck-a-luckn. Forms: Also chuck-luck, chuckle luck. Etymology: apparently < chuck v.² 2 + luck n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchuck-a-ˌluck. North American. A gambling game played with dice. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games rafflec1405 passagec1425 treygobet1426 mumchance1528 trey-trip1564 lots?1577 novum?1577 fox-mine-host1622 in and in1630 merry main1664 snake1688 pass-dice1753 chicken hazard1781 Shaking in the Shallow1795 sequin hazard1825 chuck-a-luck1836 Newmarket1837 chicken1849 poker dice1870 under and over1890 sweat1894 crown and anchor1902 Murrumbidgee1917 beetle1936 liar dice1946 Yahtzee1957 1836 in W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky (1847) 24 I thought I'd make a rise on chuck-a-luck, but you prehaps never saw such a run of luck. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) ix. 111 A chuck-a-luck table. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 124 Games of hazard, such as push-pin, marbles, chuck-a-luck, heads and tails, and other like boyish pastimes. 1856 Liberator 12 Jan. XXVI. 12 Leper and Doolin got into a quarrel over a game called ‘chuckle luck’. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iv. 94 We walk down to the ‘chuck-a-luck’ board. 1879 Southern Hist. Soc. Papers VII. 489 Cards, monte, roulette, keno, faro, chuck-a-luck, and in fact every game of chance known. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Jan. 1/4 The Chinese play ‘pie-gow’, which is alleged to be a gambling game, although difficult to prove as such. But ‘fan-tan’ and ‘chuck-luck’ are said to have been totally suppressed. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. x. 165 And a man's so sick of himself by the time he gets this far that he'd play chuck-a-luck. 1925 C. E. Mulford Cottonwood Gulch iv. 57 Chuck-a-luck gamblers. 1944 Harper's Mag. June 53/1 Several crap tables and chuck-luck layouts. 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency ii. 15 You fancy craps, roulette, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck, or just plain whoring? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1836
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