| 单词 | hell-keeper | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-keeper   hell-keeper  n. 		 (a) a keeper of a gambling den (cf. sense  A. 8);		 (b) a keeper of hell or the underworld. ΚΠ 1823    in  ‘J. Bee’ Slang 174  				A certain hell-keeper tied himself up before the magistrates, never to touch a card, or handle a rake again. 1872    Galaxy Apr. 580/2  				Certain well-known gamblers work their hells and branch hells..without paying for the privilege as a European hell-keeper is obliged to do. 1977    Assoc. Press 		(Nexis)	 22 June  				One joke: a group of Burmese, condemned to hell cluster around a cauldron marked ‘socialism’, shunning one labeled ‘capitalism’ to the great puzzlement of the hell-keeper. < as lemmas  | 
	
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