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Gamble

noun

Money that is risked for possible monetary gain.

A risky act or venture.

verb

(past & past part. gambled; pres. part. gambling)

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome. Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances.

Play games for money.

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"Gamble" Quotes from Famous Books

... upper and middle classes as a whole, and it may be said that open immorality and gross intemperance have vanished. Four and six bottle men are as extinct as the dodo. Women of good repute do not gamble, and talk modelled upon Dean Swift's "Art of Polite Conversation" would be ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... then, for it is little honor one gains by such acquaintances. They suit Wild Bill, for they drink, gamble, and shoot on little cause; they are ready for any adventure, never stopping to count risks or look back when evil is commenced or ruin wrought, no matter what may ...

— Wild Bill's Last Trail • Ned Buntline

... was then that I measured the full depth of the chasm I had escaped. I made no such exhibition of myself, but when I tried to relight my cigar my hand trembled so that the flame scorched my lips. I registered a vow never to gamble again—not with stocks, not with cards, not at all. And I've ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... another Southern leader, Stonewall Jackson, in his piety. It was not ostentatious, but simply part and parcel of the man, due to his Presbyterian training. Haig did not swear or gamble or dance all night. He was more apt to be found in his tent, when off duty, either ...

— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden

... held together and got rich—fair rich. They made it so fast they couldn't even gamble the stuff away. About a thousand times, I guess posses went out after Piotto, but they never came back with a trace of 'em; they never got within shootin' distance. Finally Piotto got so confident that he started raidin' ranches ...

— Trailin'! • Max Brand

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