miss-outn.
/ˈmɪsaʊt/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌaʊt/ Gambling.
1. A loaded dice.
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1928 J. O'Connor Broadway Racketeers xiv. 157 The game keeper has all sorts of crooked ones, those known as ‘Shapes’, others called ‘Miss-Outs’.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 114 The spots on them miss-out dice.
1986 Amer. Speech 61 30 Miss outs, pair of obvious dice on which one die shows a single pip on each face, the other shows six pips on each face, or one die may show five pips on each face, the other two pips on each face.
2. A losing throw, esp. in the game of craps; = craps n. b.
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1936 Detective Fiction Weekly 21 Mar. 139/1 If the dice are cut as ‘passers’, the percentage in favor of the shooter is ‘mild’; but cut for a banking or fading advantage (called ‘miss-outs’ or ‘missing dice’) the advantage is stronger.
1961 in E. Partridge Dict. Underworld (1968) 846/1 Misses... (2) Crooked dice that are gaffed to make more miss-outs than passes.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling v. 109 He loses if he throws a Two, Three, or Twelve (a ‘crap’ or ‘miss-out’).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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