gambling game
1
3.4
- noun
:
juego de azar
- Men not only consumed alcohol but also, as the night wore on, played games of cards and the morra, an illegal Sardinian gambling game, and occasionally improvised a tenores group.
- an illegal gambling game
They look better than it was, like a bet insight, almost like saying, all right, we have this gambling game.
- They look better than it was, like a bet insight, almost like saying, all right, we have this gambling game.
Examples
-
One old Indian woman in a red dress and blanket was playing a gambling game with sticks.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is saying in these kinds of gambling games, you can't learn from the past.
-
I enjoy it because it's the one gambling game that relies on a player's knowledge and skill almost as much as random luck.
Blog text (10) -
That's more appropriate for a gambling game than it is for real sources.
-
The subjects in the study played a gambling game with decks of cards.
Blog text (26) -
The participants didn't know any of the rules of the gambling game.
Blog text (26) -
In historic times, chunkey was also a gambling game par excellence.
Academic text (2009) -
He got a job in a war plant and began a series of gambling games that ran twenty-four hours a day.
Fiction book (1993) -
So you can see there's like, you know, go play a gambling game or go, you know, get a free trial of some shady diet supplement, right?
-
At the casino, players gathered around the table to try their luck at the popular gambling game of poker.
Synonyms
396
3.0
A card game where players bet on who has the best hand
199
2.3
A game where people buy numbered tickets and winners are chosen by chance
53
2.7
A card game where players bet on having the best cards
52
4.9
A card game where players take face up cards from the table using cards from their hand
49
4.4
A game where players mark numbers on a card and hope to win money
44
4.4
A card game where players try to get a hand value close to 21 without going over
41
6.6
Players bet on which numbered part of a spinning wheel the small ball will land on
25
3.3
A machine in a casino where you put coins and spin pictures to try to win money
9
3.7
An activity where luck decides the result, like a lottery or roulette
9
9.5
A casino card game where players bet on the hand closest to nine
1
9.0
An illegal lottery where people bet on numbers to win money
1
8.5
A gambling game played with two dice in which players bet on the numbers they roll
A casino game where players bet against the house or dealer
How Skillful
396
3.0
44
4.4
1
3.4
41
6.6
- US
25
3.3
199
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a game played for money or stakes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'gambling' (risking money on chance) with 'game' (a recreational contest). This is a literal, compositional phrase following common noun-noun modification patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun gambling game comes from the simple image of people playing a game while they gamble, putting money at risk and 'bet' on the result. That's why a gambling game means 'a game played for money or other stakes'.