Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gambles; one addicted to gaming or playing for money or other stakes; a gamester.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gambles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who plays at a
game of chance , whogambles . - noun One who takes
risks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
- noun a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he also is one of the biggest gambles as he is a classic high-risk, high-return sort of riverboat gambler from the back end.
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Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense.
The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Where's that little pale printer's devil, the one they call the gambler's ghost?
Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911
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The short or intermediate term gambler or speculator would wait for some better confirmation of a turn around of trend before risking capital.
Safehaven Merv Burak 2010
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The short or intermediate term gambler or speculator would wait for some better confirmation of a turn around of trend before risking capital.
Safehaven Merv Burak 2010
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The short or intermediate term gambler or speculator would wait for some better confirmation of a turn around of trend before risking capital.
Safehaven 2010
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The short or intermediate term gambler or speculator would wait for some better confirmation of a turn around of trend before risking capital.
Safehaven 2010
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Mr Benjamin complained of Mr Russell of the 'Times' for holding him up to fame as a "gambler" -- a story which he understood Mr Russell had learnt from Mr Charles Sumner at Washington.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle 1868
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The Palin pick already, as Noemie Emery wrote, “Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.”
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He does not come across as a gambler, which is why it must have really killed him to take a flier in Fleischer, buying a "pig in a poke" by granting him immunity on the blind.
Prolagus commented on the word gambler
GAMblEr.
April 23, 2008