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gambling hell

noun

gambling hell

noun
1

UK, Derogatory, Informal, Sometimes Synonym of gambling house.

  • 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.1844, Jonathan Harrington Green, Gambling Unmasked! Or The Personal Experience of J.H. Green, The Reformed Gambler, page 138:

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