| 单词 | gambling ring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgambling ring 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. < as lemmas |
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