baccarat

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"Authorized Game" or "Authorized Gambling Game" is defined by exemplum: "Roulette, baccarat, blackjack, craps, big six wheel, and slot machines."

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  1. noun A card game in which the winner is the player who holds two or three cards totaling closest to nine.

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  • "Authorized Game" or "Authorized Gambling Game" is defined by exemplum: "Roulette, baccarat, blackjack, craps, big six wheel, and slot machines." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
  • Roulette, baccarat, blackjack, poker, craps, and other table games occupied the center of the room. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • If you know vingt-et-un -- or poor man's baccarat, or blackjack, or pontoon, whichever you like to call it -- you know that the object is not to go above 21 with the cards dealt to you. —  Flash For Freedom
  • The good news is that the house has a relatively small advantage on most of the bets in American baccarat. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I should explain that baccarat is the most imbecile of card games (Elspeth plays it, after all) in which half-wits sit round a large table and the banker deals two cards to the crowd on his right, two to those on his left, and two to himself, the object being to get as near a total of nine with your two cards as may be; if your side gets two deuces, you'll ask for a third card, won't you, hoping for a four or a five, and the banker has the same privilege. —  Watershed
 

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/bækəˈrɑ/
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