| 单词 | mitt joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmitt joint mitt joint n. U.S. slang (a) a gambling house in which cheating takes place; (b) = mitt camp n. ΚΠ 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 59 A ‘mitt joint’ is a gambling house where victims are ‘steered’ for fleecing by means of deceptively ‘sure thing’ hands. 1923 C. R. Cooper Under Big Top 60 I have seen a couple halt before a ‘mitt joint’ where a greasy Mexican or Syrian or anything else but a gypsy stands. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §626/7 Mitt camp or joint, a fortune teller's tent or booth. 1998 Independent 19 Nov. 11 Berry patch. Mitt joint. Nut straight... The feted attraction of the gambling movie Rounders is..Matt Damon, yet the film's trump card is..what you hear: the sound of a private language batted crisply back and forth. < as lemmas |
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