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gambling den

n. a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business) [syn: gambling house, gambling hell, gaming house]

Usage examples of "gambling den".

I myself saw the car standing before another gambling den on Forty-seventh Street about the same time.

This woman, this Allura, couldn't beat the wily and experienced Quark at his own game, in his own gambling den.

The city has become famous for its licentiousness, as a gambling den, a whorehouse, a place of bawdy songs and wild, loud music.

I've never seen a crooked gambling den that didn't depend on military pay vouchers to keep their doors open.

Three days later, when Kenji Harigami walked into the gambling den, he found the same smoke-filled room, the same squinty-eyed, sour-smelling lot he was used to.

There had been certain rumors anent a gambling den, whereat Mistress de Chavasse had been the presiding spirit and which had come under the watchful eye of my Lord Protector's spies.

It took only a few minutes to find what he'd sought: A Fujianese gambling den.

He wore a dark, conservative suit that might have belonged to a banker or a lawyer instead of a saloonkeeper and proprietor of a gambling den.

Yet he walked over to glance into the gambling den while he said it.

It was a gambling den with lush carpets and fancy lounges and games of chance of many kinds.

He vaporized it with a long burst and three twenty-centimeter rounds, just in case the command detonator was there rather than in the shattered gambling den.