To pay a fee necessary to play a game, typically a card game.

(gambling) To bet on someone losing.

(backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board. The first player to bear off all checkers is the winner.

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

(gambling) To make one's bet

(bridge) Suitable for bidding.

In the game of craps, a prominent space on the table where one can place a bet that the shooter will roll an eight before a seven.

(fencing) The most severe of penalties, which results in the fencer being expelled from the match.

(gambling) To place bets on all possible combinations for the daily double.

(transitive, by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.

A game of chance in which players bet on combinations of three dice.

(gambling) The initial roll of the dice in craps.

A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.

(gambling) To lose a game of craps by rolling a seven.

A game of craps.

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.

A game of chance popular with soldiers in the late 19th and early 20th century, in which players bet on combinations of three dice. It is equivalent to chuck-a-luck.

(transitive, card games) not to deal cards to someone who is leaving a game.

(card games) To show one's cards in order to score.

(chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

Any game that requires the rolling of dice, such as craps.

(gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.

(gambling) To double one's wager. In particular, it is the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.

A round of questioning or other situation where the possible gains and/or losses from choices are magnified.

A bet of the same value as the initial one, resulting in either a doubling of a loss, or it being cancelled.

Alternative form of double down [(gambling) To double one's wager. In particular, it is the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.]

(gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.

(gambling, slang) A cheater's dice that contain metal slugs and are influenced by a magnet.

(gambling) Being a simple bet on a single specific outcome, especially a number in roulette.

(gambling) Odds of six to one.

(bridge) Bidding more or less rashly in order to liven up the game.

(poker) To be in a position where one is guaranteed a tie, but one can also win.

(gambling, sometimes attributive) A tournament in which players are gradually eliminated and the last remaining player wins everything gambled.

(card games) To play a hand without the assistance of one's partner.

(card games) To bet without having examined the cards.

(card games) To fail to make bid, thereby earning a negative score.

(Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.

(obsolete) An old English trading game where two players want to trade possessions. An umpire decides whether the items have the same value, and if not, what the difference is. Both players and umpire then put some forfeit money in a cap. The players put their hands in the cap, and then remove them either open, to signal agreement with the valuation, or closed, to signal disagreement. If both players agree, the difference in valuation is paid, the items are traded, and the umpire collects the forfeit. If both players disagree, the items are not traded, and the umpire collects the forfeit. If one player agrees and the other does not, the items are not traded, and the player who agreed to the valuation collects the forfeit.

(craps) Alternative form of hardway (“type of bet”) [(craps, chiefly attributive) A bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.]

(craps, chiefly attributive) A bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.

(gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.

(bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.

A game in which one player announces that they have never done a specific thing, and all those who have done it must do a forfeit.

(bridge) To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game.

(poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).

In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.

(mathematics, theory of gambling) Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck.

(gambling, dice games, slang) A score of four in the game of craps.

(transitive) To beat in the card game lanterloo.

A gambling strategy in which one doubles the stake after each loss.

(gambling, slang) A die loaded in favor of the house and against the player.

(craps) A roll of two dice with a score of 7 or 11 on the comeout roll.

(gambling, dice games) A roll of nine in the game of craps.

(gambling) Nine, in the game of craps.

(obsolete) A street or public-house game with three or more players. Each tosses a coin, and if only one player gets heads or tails, that player loses.

(chess) An advantage given to a weaker opponent in order to equalize the game when playing casually, usually by removing one of the stronger player's pieces or by giving the weaker player more time.

A person who sets odds for gambling

(collectible card games, transitive) To defeat a player with a one turn kill.

(card games) To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards.

(bridge) An act of overruffing

(bridge, transitive) To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids.

(gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

To be a situation where little or no personal risk can be incurred.

(countable, golf, gambling) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.

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A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score

(US) A competitive game of answering trivia questions, often played by school and college students.

(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

(gambling, rare) Act of responding to a bluff with another bluff.

(gambling) A combination of two forecast bets to select the first and second place winners of a race in any order.

(backgammon) A form of analysis in which the same position is played many times (with different dice rolls) and the various outcomes are recorded.

(gin rummy) A loss with no points scored.

(gambling) A loaded die.

(card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.

(gambling) A player who is short of money.

(poker slang) An instance of winning a hand by sucking out.

(gambling) A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning.

A gambling game played with three dice and a staking-layout drawn on a sweat-cloth, or the equipment for this game.

(intransitive) To play elsewhere; to ignore the opponent's last move.

(gambling) A gambling game played with three coins.

(obsolete) An old game played with dice.

In the game of cribbage, to reach the point at which one is safe from being lurched.

(UK) A conker that has won two matches.

(gambling) A contestant or competitor whose odds are so short that it is not considered to be worth betting on.

A gambling game where players bet on whether a number of rolled dice will sum to less than, more than, or exactly seven.

(bridge) To bid less than the full value of a hand of cards.

(bridge) To ruff with a trump lower than the trump already played by one's opponent

All or nothing, all in, for broke; riskily putting everything on the line to either win it all or lose it all.

To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

(gambling) To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.

(dice games) A probability game where players amass scores depending on the values of the five dice they roll.