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[US] P. Earley Super Casino 278: [H]e asked for ‘half and half,’ which meant he wanted both oral and vaginal sex.
at half-and-half, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 279: Calls came into the switchboard and the receptionist beeped the girls whenever they were needed.
at beep, v.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 282: ‘Everyone thought if they allowed gambling in Atlantic City, it was going to be a boom for organized crime’.
at boom, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 198: The boxman sits in the center on one side of the oblong craps table and watches the dice, rules on all disputes, counts out the chips, and collects all the money, which he stuffs in a box; hence the term.
at box-man (n.) under box, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 228: ‘At Christmas everyone in a casino dies because there isn’t much action, and one Christmas I was really busted’.
at bust, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 67: Most gamblers played in casinos where they were also staying as guests. This was especially true of high rollers, who demanded free luxury suites and other comps in return for their gambling action.
at comp, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 319: Gray [a prostitute] liked being with David [a client], and she knew he was falling in love with her. By this time, they had been ‘dating’ for three months.
at date, v.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 279: A driver would pick them up and take them to their ‘dates,’ usually at a Strip hotel.
at date, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 72: ‘The rule in those days was if you had a dead game [no customers] [sic], you were supposed to stand facing straight ahead with your arms folded’.
at dead, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 209: But from this point on, Schaeffer announced, the company wanted all of the details of its dealings with Wynn drawn up in a formal contract. There would be no more handshake deals.
at handshake deal, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 218: If a customer tossed a $50 bill onto a blackjack table, the dealer issued him $50 worth of chips and pushed the $50 bill into a locked metal box attached to the table. That bill was now part of the drop.
at drop, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 1: Every game is designed to give the house a mathematical advantage, called the ‘edge’.
at edge, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 9: [A]nother egghead professor with a crackpot theory.
at egghead, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 136: Her husband wins a couple hundred dollars and hands me a fifty as a tip. He was a real George [big tipper] [sic].
at George, n.6
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 276: ‘My job is to get the trick off as fast as I can for as much money as I can’.
at get off, v.2
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 275: As long as the money is green and I can get as much of it any way that I can—that’s what I want.
at green, adj.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 101: [C]asino owners were stunned to see how rich Bennett and Pennington had become operating grind joints—so called because profits were ground out a penny at a time.
at grind joint, n.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 218: Once again the report used a casino term: the ‘handle.’ This was the total number of coins played in a slot machine.
at handle, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 164: ‘Everything now is patterned after Disneyland, but Las Vegas isn’t Disneyland. Hello? Is anyone listening?’.
at hello!, excl.1
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 3: He [the blackjack gambler] pointed toward the queen of clubs and tapped the table with his forefinger. This meant he was ready for a ‘hit"—another card to go with his queen.
at hit, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 5: ‘Okay, hit me,’ he finally declared. ‘Just make it a small one.’ It wasn’t. It was a seven and he busted.
at hit me! (excl.) under hit, v.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 318: ‘I had given the casino a hot check for two hundred dollars’.
at hot, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 227: Hustling tips was not allowed and still isn’t, but in those days everyone hustled and everyone knew it.
at hustle, v.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 268: Schaeffer was now lowering that figure to $1.08 a share. By other companies’ standards, that was still a juicy return.
at juicy, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 209: Frank Fahrenkopf [...] was hired as the AGA’s executive director and ordered to kill Wolf’s bill [investigating US gambling].
at kill, v.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 175: ‘[T]he reed boats were such a lame ride’.
at lame, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 84: Bennett set his slots so they were the ‘loosest’ in town, which meant they paid players more jackpots than other machines.
at loose, adj.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 34: Has there ever been another destination like Las Vegas? [...] Call it what you will: Lost Wages, Pair-o-Dice, Never-Never Land.
at Lost Wages, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 30: ‘I can hardly wait to make love to my old man. I mean, this has been a real turn-on this afternoon’.
at old man, n.
[US] P. Earley Super Casino 200: ‘You an outlaw?’ she asked, using the slang term that prostitutes use in California to describe a hooker who works without a pimp.
at outlaw, n.
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