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gamblingn.

Brit. /ˈɡamblɪŋ/, /ˈɡambl̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡæmb(ə)lɪŋ/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: game v., game n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Ultimately < either a derivative or a variant of either game v. or game n. + -ing suffix1; compare gaming n. and forms at that entry, and compare also gameling n. Compare later gamble v. and see discussion at that entry, and compare also gambling adj. and gambler n.
The action, practice, or pastime of playing games for stakes, as cards, dice, etc., or betting money on the outcome of particular events, e.g. the result of a race or other sporting contest; (also occasionally) an instance or example of this. Also more generally: the taking of risks in the hope of gaining some advantage, benefit, or success. Cf. gaming n. 1b.Recorded earliest in attributive use.In early use almost always with pejorative connotations of extravagance, immorality, etc. Now usually in more neutral use, although more likely to be used pejoratively than gaming, typically under the assumption that gambling involves pure chance and constitutes irresponsible or irrational behaviour.Earliest in attributive use: see, esp., Compounds 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun]
wedding1503
bettinga1616
wagering1692
gambling1700
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > gaming
playc1300
gaming1501
gamestry1605
chancing1652
gambling1700
spieling1859
1700 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote I. i. iii. ii. 145 The Room where it stood was an old gambling Cock-loft [Sp. un camaranchón].
1778 London Mag. Jan. 21/1 The three glorious purposes of gluttony, drunkenness and gambling.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 21. 164 She had an in-bred abhorrence of gambling.
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 14 Sept. 578/1 Their gamblings, dissipations.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. viii. 182 Robberies are a natural consequence of universal gambling.
1857 R. Whately Introd. Lessons on Morals xviii. 153 (note) People may, and often do, play at games of chance without any stake at all. And again, at billiards, which is altogether a game of skill, much gambling often takes place.
1897 B. F. Westcott Christian Aspects of Life 231 The State..must deal in some way with gambling.
1906 B. Vaughan Sins of Society 31 This passion for gambling is not, I am sorry to say, confined to the Smart Set.
1951 Billboard 10 Nov. 64/4 Judge Schettino..found that skillo was a game of skill and therefore not gambling.
1964 R. Gover Here goes Kitten 11 The Senator gave the green light go-ahead for the recent crack down on gambling and prostitution.
2003 D. C. Mueller Corporation iii. 16 While taking risks even at unfavorable odds—gambling—can sometimes be fun,..most people, most of the time are risk averse in their choices.
2009 V. Coren For Richer for Poorer xiv. 194 [He] gave up gambling years ago.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive, as gambling addiction, gambling practice, gambling spree, etc.
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1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 246 Some sneaking virtue lurks in him, no doubt, Where neither strumpets' charms, nor drinking-bout, Nor gambling practices, can find it out. View more context for this quotation
1831 Lincoln Herald 7 Oct. 4/4 Gambling set-outs of every description.
1844 Rep. Sel. Comm. Gaming 210 in Parl. Papers VI. 211 I seized a roulette-wheel and a quantity of gambling apparatus.
1871 McBride's Mag. Sept. 267/1 But already this gambling practice [sc. lottery] was falling into disrepute.
1887 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 Nov. 1/2 (headline) A gambling spree ends in the probably fatal shooting of a young man near Mount Pleasant.
1905 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 4/4 The thirst for money prizes and the gambling craze.
1922 Amer. City Mag. Oct. 317/1 One that does not have crooked devices among the gambling paraphernalia is indeed an exception.
1947 Nevada State Jrnl. 18 Sept. 14/4 Six per cent. of the people employed in Reno and Sparks work for the gambling industry.
1972 G. P. Seng If we dream too Long v. 40 The thrills of their gambling sessions once a year with ang pow money at Chinese New Year.
1984 A. Morawetz & G. Walker Brief Therapy with Single-parent Families viii. 193 He had had a severe gambling problem and..had ‘blown’ all the family's hard-earned savings.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. 29/3 The postie..used the children's gift money to fund his gambling addiction.
b.
gambling debt n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > debt incurred at gambling
play-debt1687
game debt1729
gambling debt1763
1763 Proc. Old Bailey 14 Sept. 225/1 It was a gambling debt.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiv. 206 The wretch offered to buy me and the children of Henry, to clear off his gambling debts.
1993 Radio Times 18 Sept. 80/3 Spenser comes to the aid of his former boxing coach, who is crippled with gambling debts.
gambling game n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > type of game
ordinary1684
gambling game1803
creep joint1928
table game1951
lose game1971
1803 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch of Mod. Paris xxxii. 289 Boulotte is a gambling game much played at Paris, and said to be the support of several families.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 168 These gambling games were kept up throughout the night.
1897 A. C. Harris Alaska & Klondike Gold Fields xxiii. 553 Saloons and all kinds of gambling games—keno, faro, black jack, poker, roulette—flourish by day and by night.
1996 High Country News 1 Apr. 1 (caption) And some Western communities have lost big at the gambling game.
gambling instinct n.
ΚΠ
1860 A. Reid Way of World III. v. 140 Only fools and hot-headed boys would peril honour and fortune on the blind chances of the gaming-table, when the far-seeing, calculating risks of speculation..gave more than sufficient play to the gambling instinct.
1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 141 The Republic appeals..to the gambling instinct in human nature.
2000 J. Lukeman Market Maker's Edge iv. 30 The impulsive gambling instinct causes them to trade from the hip, sometimes with an all-or-nothing destructive urge.
gambling spirit n.
ΚΠ
1777 T. Paine Amer. Crisis No. II 43 Those who knew the savage obstinacy of the king and the jobbing gambling spirit of the court predicted the fate of the petition.
1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. ii. 17 There is a gambling spirit in human nature.
1984 Associated Press (Nexis) 28 July Gamblers jammed casinos as gaming continued unabated on the glittery Strip... The gambling spirit was not quelled by the raging storm.
C2.
a. attributive, with the sense ‘designating a building or other venue dedicated to gambling’, as gambling casino, gambling establishment, gambling shop, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
ΚΠ
1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb 123 He immediately ventured this [sc. a guinea] at my lord M—d—n's gambling-shop.
1777 'Squire Randal's Excursion round London ix. 72 There was no such thing as friendship or sensibility ever admitted into a gambling-room.
1853 R. W. Clark Lect. Formation Char. Young Men vii. 140 One, who had gained about forty thousand dollars, purchased..the necessary implements and furniture for an extensive gambling establishment.
1887 R. Glisan Two Years in Europe xii. 318 This famous bathing place was..infamous on account of its large gambling establishments.
1912 H. W. Stough Across Dead Line of Amusements ii. 97 He owned and operated a gambling boat on the Mississippi river.., under the guise of a pleasure boat.
1985 N.Y. Times 29 Sept. 51/1 The Police Commissioner can close such places as..gambling parlors that pose as legitimate businesses.
2011 D. O'Connor & M. O'Connor Montreal's Irish Mafia vi. 62 He operated an illegal gambling casino.., while at the same time dabbling in drug trafficking.
b.
gambling booth n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1804 C. Maclean Excursion in France 195 During the continuance of the fair, which is twenty or twenty-five days, licensed gambling-booths are constantly open along the river side.
2007 B. Le Breton Greatest Gift ii. 26 Henry was in charge of the gambling booth, and Edna presided over the kitchen.
gambling club n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1774 ‘L. Cooper’ Elegiac Epist. Ravish'd Pomona 4 Ravish'd by L—n!—ah! there's the rub, The Gambling Member of a Gambling Club.
1830 Monthly Rev. June 286 His time would certainly be much more innocently spent in such a task than among the gambling clubs of London.
1955 T. Sterling Evil of Day xxi. 208 I used to be a shill in a Reno gambling club.
1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 163 Police officers had a scrawny white youth up against a wall..as I entered the gambling club.
† gambling cock loft n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1700Gambling Cock loft [see main sense].
1713 Capt. Bland Northern Atalantis 9 The Maid..conducted me into an old gambling Cock-loft, which stunk as bad as a Curriers Shop.
gambling den n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1792 St. James's Chron. 16 Feb. Unless the gambling dens, the lurking-holes of our foes, be immediately cleansed.
1819 New Bon Ton Mag. 1 Mar. 313 I consider half the noblemens' houses in town as little better than unlicensed brothels; gambling dens above the law's dominion, in which children are educated in all the arts of vice beneath the eyes of their parents.
1882 J. D. McCabe New York 563 The street is lined with long rows of rum-shops, rat-pits, low-down gambling dens, and thieves' dens.
1996 Time Out 31 July 163/4 Greer purrs fetchingly as proprietress of the local gambling den.
gambling hall n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
?1781 Things in Imitation of Poetry 50 Miss was entr'd in her teens, Frequents ridottoes, operas, balls, Drums, routs, ruelles, and gambling halls.
1812 R. Wilson Private Diary I. 38 After dinner went..to the conversazione, which is a great gambling hall, or ‘hell’ in classical terms.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 25 July b3/1 Federal Judge John Shabaz found last May that Corrie illegally managed Winnebago gambling halls without the consent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
gambling hell n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1818 New Bon Ton Mag. 1 Dec. 98 (heading) The poor Greek in the Suds; or, the Devil to pay among the Gambling Hells.
1848 Knickerbocker Jan. 37 The feverish excitement of a gambling-hell.
1915 Times 10 June 11/3 He found his wife in a gambling hell.
2007 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 23 Jan. 66 He had lost most of his paper profits in the gambling hells of Atlantic City.
gambling house n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1772 S. Paterson Joineriana II. 77 They [sc. newspaper proprietors] are men of no more virtue, than those who would run shares with Brothels and Gambling-houses.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. liv. 161 A man who keeps a gambling-house is the proprietor of an unlawful establishment.
1992 Publishers Weekly Summer 58/3 The author recalls her life as the daughter of a bookie in an illegal gambling house in Arkansas.
† gambling ken n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1725 Capt. Anstruther Let. from Man in Moon 32 Others [sc. Satanic couriers] were distributed among the Cases, the Gambling, Boozing, Brandy, and other Flashy Kenns.
gambling joint n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1885 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 26 Feb. 4/4 John Condon, the famous Chicago sporting man,..runs one of the principal gambling joints in Chicago.
1925 B. Travers Mischief v Who does Captain Dumfoil expect to find running a gambling joint? The Archbishop of Canterbury?
1998 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 344/2 He took control of the Golden Nugget and began transforming it from a seedy gambling joint into the first four-star hotel in downtown's Glitter Gulch.
C3. attributive, with the sense ‘operating, engaged in, or involving (esp. illegal) gambling’, as gambling racket, gambling ring, etc.
ΚΠ
1777 St. James's Chron. 12 July 4/4 A Correspondent compares our Naval Operations in America to the Gambling Operations at Almack's.
1788 World 8 Sept. Young kept a large Linen-draper's shop..which was..a skreen, to carry on more securely his gambling schemes.
1833 Standard 6 Nov. The applicant..wished the magistrate to grant a warrant for the apprehension of eight individuals, who composed a gambling gang.
1893 Rochester (Indiana) Weekly Republican 19 Oct. Marshal Reed says he ‘got onto’ the gambling racket.., and squelched it so effectually that it will not bob up serenely at any time in the near future.
1960 P. W. Tappan Crime, Justice & Correction xi. 306 This investigation led to the disclosure of a 20-million-dollar-a-year gambling syndicate in Brooklyn.
2011 C. Rylander Fourth Stall ii. 15 They say he used his network to operate an illegal gambling ring.
C4.
gambling machine n. a machine which allows the user to gamble money on the outcome of an automated game or process; (now usually) a slot machine used for gambling.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > gambling machines
gambling machine?1790
poker machine1899
fruit machine1933
one-armed bandit1936
one-arm bandit1937
pokie1965
?1790 Morning & Evening Amusem. Merlin's Mech. Mus. 5 The Gambling Machine.
1843 Cold Water Mag. Sept. 69/1 I counted thirty persons, besides those whose business it was to set the gambling machine in operation. The table was covered with money.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. iii. 101 Gambling-machines and switchbacks.
1999 Times 29 Nov. 42/2 The idle gambling machines have a melancholy air.
gambling school n. an establishment where gambling takes place; a gambling club; (also) = school n.1 11b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance > party of
table1750
school1819
gambling school1935
1773 T. H. Delamayne Patricians 7 From White's, Newmarket, and those gambling schools, Where fools made sharpers, in their turns make fools,..Grafton stept forth.
1893 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 363/1 Jim Colpoys had nothing to teach this graduate of the gambling schools of the Great West, and had to acknowledge to himself that he had met his match either at fair play or foul.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ii. 17 Some colliers..that made up the gambling school in ordinary times—squatted upon their hunkers against the wall.
2007 Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. 88 He cited recent attempts that were made to close 53 gambling schools and brothels around Lahore.
gambling table n. = gaming table n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > table
ordinary table1578
gaming table1598
whimsy-board1702
gaming board?1716
play-table1717
green table1724
gambling table1769
table1770
1769 Fruitless Repentance I. xii. 81 I am weary of the beau-monde, and the gambling table never was my taste.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 26 He's..croupier at a gambling-table.
1891 H. Campbell Darkness & Daylight (1895) xxxiii. 639 Whenever they have money, no matter how obtained, they generally drop the most of it at the gambling-tables.
1974 H. S. Thompson Let. 21–24 Feb. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 582 Maybe just hang weird at the gambling tables & try to ignore the whole thing.
1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost v. xxviii. 880 Phyllis owed..a marker in the neighborhood of $100,000 at the gambling tables.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gamblingadj.

Brit. /ˈɡamblɪŋ/, /ˈɡambl̩ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡæmb(ə)lɪŋ/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: game v., game n., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: Ultimately < either a derivative or a variant of either game v. or game n. + -ing suffix2; compare gaming adj. Compare later gamble v. and see discussion at that entry, and compare also gambling n. and gambler n.
That gambles, esp. habitually; that enjoys gambling. Formerly also: †that cheats at cards, dice, etc. (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [adjective] > gaming
gambling1726
gamblesome1874
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [adjective] > gaming > cheating
gambling1726
1726 Whole Art & Myst. of Mod. Gaming 111 The very Heads of such Families may not improperly be call'd the Game of (what they with a just Derision of their own Vileness term) the Gambling Fraternity.
1774 ‘L. Cooper’ Elegiac Epist. Ravish'd Pomona (ed. 2) 4 Ravish'd by L—n!—ah! there's the rub, The Gambling Member of a Gambling Club.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Gambling (p.a. from gamble), gaming, cheating by unfair methods of play.
1827 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. Oct. 193/1 The gambling man of fashion, who lives at the rate of ten thousand a year, without the possession of a legitimate sixpence.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon xvii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 358/1 I received visits from..several gambling adventurers at the watering-places.
1913 Sat. Rev. 11 Oct. Suppl. p. iv/1 Fox was himself a gambling, drinking, wenching..rascal.
1989 W. Dalrymple In Xanadu (1990) viii. 284 There were no paper-lantern prostitutes or opium-den gangsters, no gambling Triad smugglers.
2000 P. Agbabi Transformatrix 30 I'm not a gambling man..but I put a few quid down on the favourite and it comes in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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