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[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 205: You’ve a choice either of bottling up your own resentment and leaving the game, or of exposing the cheat.
at bottle up, v.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 24: Nick bumped the action, 1,500.
at bump, v.1
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 243: The hustler laughed and refused Nick’s extra C-note.
at C-note, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 236: The come-on [...] is that the wager seems to occur to the guy right on the spot.
at come-on, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 136: They dropped a bundle.
at drop, v.2
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 240: When you think such a gaff is being worked on you [...] it’s a good idea not to press the matter too hard.
at gaff, n.3
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 126: ‘Gaffed,’ he said. ‘It’s a bitter thing to admit – but not one illegal Faro game in Los Angeles is on the level.’.
at gaff, v.1
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 77: The big action in Vegas was downtown, in ‘glitter gulch’.
at glitter gulch, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 220: Besides losing on that goat, I got to playing Stuss with a couple of grifters.
at goat, n.1
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 20: That little goniff never so much as saw a real high roller in his whole chiseling life.
at gonnof, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 19: The little grifter with the horse-blanket coat.
at grifter, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 19: These guys are real high rollers. Big!
at high roller, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 80: You’ll find accounts of a device called a ‘juice-joint’.
at juice joint (n.) under juice, n.1
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 27: He gave sundry other gentlemen by courtesy (who had entered the scene as side-betting kibitzers) his promissory note for $560,000.
at kibitzer, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 107: This woman was a ‘knish’ – that is, she had the beginning spread, cast-iron hairdo, and overset rings of the typical housewife ‘on a little outing’ in Las Vegas.
at knish, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 111: He has a Blackjack, or a ‘natural,’ and wins his bet at once.
at natural, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 96: It only means that the house p-c on that particular part of the action is zero.
at p.c., n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 77: A funny thing happened to Siegel on his way to the big payoff.
at payoff, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 41: This [...] piddle-around action is the worst that can happen.
at piddle about (v.) under piddle, v.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 73: The first ‘rug joint’ in Washington, D.C., was launched by Ed Pendleton in 1832.
at rug joint (n.) under rug, n.1
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 73: By 1850, the lower-class casinos – called ‘sawdust joints’ [...] extended throughout the land.
at sawdust joint (n.) under sawdust, n.2
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 173: The people you find hanging around playing the slots [...] are not smart enough to do any really effective tampering.
at slot, n.
[US] T. Thackrey Gambling Secrets of Nick The Greek 247: I know you’re strictly on the square.
at on the square under square, adj.
[US] P. Rey Greek 56: ‘For heaven’s sake’— she laughed— ‘you’re hung like a mouse!’.
at hung like a mouse under hung, adj.
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