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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 finally broke some rulesbroke them big-time. —  Cinderella At The Ball
 

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  1. French baccara, from Provençal.

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/ (bäˌkə-räˈ, băkˌə-)/
ahd pronounces "baccarat"
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