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gambling hell
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English
Noun
gambling hell (plural gambling hells)
- (UK, informal, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of gambling house.
- 1844, Jonathan Harrington Green, Gambling Unmasked! Or The Personal Experience of J.H. Green, The Reformed Gambler, page 138:
- They bribed a certain class of merchants - worthy of no better name than the devil's stool pigeons - who infested that city, to induce the young man to drink until he became intoxicated, and then take him to their gambling hell.
Further reading
- “gambling hell”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “gambling hell”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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