Crossword clues for gamble
gamble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamble \Gamble\, v. t.
To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
``Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their
estates.''
--Ames.
Gamble \Gam"ble\, n. An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty. [Colloq.]
Gamble \Gam"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gambling.] [Dim. of game. See 2d Game.] To play or game for money or other stake.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"risk something of value on a game of chance," 1726 (implied in gambling), from a dialectal survival of Middle English gammlen, variant of gamenen "to play, jest, be merry," from Old English gamenian "to play, joke, pun," from gamen (see game (n.)), with form as in fumble, etc. Or possibly gamble is from a derivative of gamel "to play games" (1590s), itself likely a frequentative from game. Originally regarded as a slang word. The intrusive -b- may be from confusion with unrelated gambol (v.). Transitive meaning "to squander in gambling" is from 1808. Related: Gambled; gambling.
"risky venture," 1823, from gamble (v.). As "an act of gambling" by 1879.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain. 2 A risky venture vb. 1 To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. 2 To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain. 3 (context transitive English) To risk (something) for potential gain. 4 To interact with equipment at a casino
WordNet
n. money that is risked for possible monetary gain
a risky act or venture
v. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance]
play games for money
Wikipedia
To gamble or wager, is to stake something of value on an event with an uncertain outcome.
Gamble, Gambling or Gambler may also refer to:
Gamble is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cheryl Gamble (born 1970), American singer
- Chris Gamble (born 1983), American football player
- Clarence Gamble, heir of the Procter and Gamble soap company fortune
- Clarence Gamble (tennis player)
- David Gamble (film editor) (born June 24, 1955), British film editor
- Donte Gamble (born 1978), American football player
- Fred Gamble (racing driver) (born 1932), Formula One racer
- Fred Gamble (actor) (1868–1939), actor
- James Gamble (industrialist) (1803–1891), co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925), botanist
- Jim Gamble, British police officer
- John A. Gamble (1933–2009), Canadian politician
- John M. Gamble (1791–1836), Officer in the United States Marine Corps
- Kenneth Gamble (born 1943), songwriter and producer
- Nathan Gamble (born 1998), American child actor
- Oscar Gamble (born 1949), former outfielder in Major League Baseball
- Peter Gamble (1790–1814), Officer in the United States Navy
- Ryan Gamble (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
- William Gamble (general) (1818–1866), Civil engineer and a Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War
- William Gamble (business) (1805–1881), Canadian businessman
Usage examples of "gamble".
Unfortunately, even though he amassed a fortune far greater than what was needed to restore the family honor, his father continued to gamble it away.
Hunched in the dirt in a corner of the cook dugout, more tortured by the food smells than by the ropes cutting his ankles and wrists, Berel Jastrow takes one look at her face and decides to gamble.
He said he never gambled, but still was satisfied that the meddling with cards in any way was immoral and injurious, and no man could be wholly pure and blemishless without eschewing them.
A hundred years of moonshining, stealing, gunrunning, gambling, counterfeiting, whoring, bribing, even killing, and eventually drug manufacturing, and not a single arrest.
His fattier had squandered the family fortune while gambling and departed the earth a few days after Brock uncovered his debts, while his mother had a softness of the mind and required expensive doctors.
Gold veins were capricious, but none of the Buhl Mining men cared to gamble unnecessarily.
Harper Investigations reported that Alex had been gambling again and was seri-ously in debt to Eddie Casale, a well-known Vegas underworld figure.
He led Chai through the thronging streets, past shops and marketplaces where the lights never went out, past the joy streets where every sin known to forty breeds of man was available and the sunlight never came in, past theaters and gambling halls and certain obscure buildings where no one was admitted except those of one particular race and only the members of those races knew what went on in them.
They were probably also what had convinced Old Conc to gamble his one-way, one-shot flight on this particular extrasolar system.
I was determined not to play any longer as a dupe, but to secure in gambling all the advantages which a prudent young man could obtain without sullying his honour.
He fretted gloomily about all the next day, riding alone in the Park, driving with his sister, drinking and gambling at the club again and smiling cynically to himself at the covert glances his acquaintances exchanged.
Leaving Saddam free to acquire nuclear weapons and then hoping that in spite of his track record he can be deterred would be a terrifically dangerous gamble.
Sevrin was getting deuced little pleasure out of the constant rounds of gambling, drinking, and wenching.
Gendibal gambled on complete certainty, driving in with a didacticism that would not allow the First Speaker to recover.
Money is given to people to get what they want and not as a basis for further acquisition, and we realize that the gambling spirit is a problem for the educationist and mental expert.