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Gambit   /gˈæmbɪt/   Listen
Gambit

noun
1.
An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.  Synonym: ploy.
2.
A maneuver in a game or conversation.  Synonyms: ploy, stratagem.
3.
A chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position.





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"Gambit" Quotes from Famous Books



... was all of a shiver forward, the spoondrift thick on her flanks, But I'd brought her an easy gambit, and nursed her over the banks; She answered her helm—the darling! and woke up now with a rush, While the Meteor's jock, he sat like a rock—he knew we ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... inspecting in an authentic copy, if these pages were allowed under any circumstances to be the vehicle of illustrations. If, however, he or she really wishes to see the way the pieces stood as they were placed at the beginning of the game, (the Widow's gambit,) he or she had better at once take a sheet of paper, draw an oval, and arrange the characters according to ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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