To
take a risk in the hope of gaining an
advantage or a benefit.
To
engage in reckless or hazardous behavior: You
are gambling with your health by continuing to
smoke.
v.tr.
To
put up as a stake in gambling; wager.
To
expose to hazard; risk: gambled their
lives in a dangerous rescue mission.
n.
A
bet, wager, or other gambling venture.
An
act or undertaking of uncertain outcome; a
risk: I took a gamble that stock prices
would rise.
[Perhaps
from obsoletegamel,
to play games, from Middle Englishgamen,
gamenen, to
play, from Old Englishgamenian,
fromgamen,
fun.]
gamblern.
gambling
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.
gambling
adj :
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and
especially games of chance; "led a dissipated
life"; "a betting man"; "a
card-playing son of a bitch"; "a
gambling fool"; "sporting gents and
their ladies" [syn: dissipated, betting,
card-playing, sporting] n : the act of playing for
stakes in the hope of winning (including the
payment of a price for a chance to win a prize);
"his gambling cost him a fortune";
"there was heavy play at the blackjack
table" [syn: gaming, play]
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