Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An attendant at a gaming table who collects and pays bets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who collects the money at a gaming-table.
- n. One who at a public dinner-party sits at the lower end of the table, as assistant chairman.
Wiktionary
- n. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
- n. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.
- n. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French croupier. (Wiktionary)
- French, one who rides behind another on a horse (obsolete), croupier, from croupe, rump, croup, from Old French; see croup2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““Table closed!” called the croupier, and instantly the little ball began to spin.”
“The croupier was a little wizened man wanted on Earth.”
“The croupier was a man with a pointed moustache and an air of having seen all the sorrow and wickedness that there had ever been in the world.”
“Table closed!" called the croupier, and instantly the little ball began to spin.”
“He had watched the duchess, and had called the croupier's attention to her neat little method.”
“Rien ne va plus!" called the croupier; but no coins had fallen on the green cloth, and the wheel stopped spinning for the night, as though by common consent.”
“` Soothed by the magic influence of my virtuous Harriet, instead of calling the croupier to account, I wrote to the proprietors of the bank, stating my ruined condition, and my readiness to sell my commission and pay them what I could.”
“The whole thing was a systematically-planned robbery, and very possibly the croupier was a confederate.”
“An assistant or "croupier" usually sits beside the dealer.”
“Just last week the New York Times reported ( "Despite Reform, Banks Have Room for Risky Deals" 08.25.10) that the likes of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are continuing to squander hundreds of millions on bets, purportedly on transactions handled for their customers, (they are now passing themselves off as "croupier" at the roulette wheel) bets that seem to serve little or no economic value other than to further pressure an economy already in distress, pushing a deeply burdened American middle class further into third world status, and taking the entire nation along for the ride.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘croupier’.
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Collected Words - List 2
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wallace
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Infinite Jest
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Infinite Jest
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wordsmith III: revenge of wordie
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
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2008 Wordlist
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Names in General.
Both derogatory and conciliatory.
coxcomb, hepcat, macaroni, buck, scuzzbucket, daddy-o, beatnik, ducky, honky, ninnyhammer, bloke, blighter and 44 more...
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2012 Words
Words looked up in 2012
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Tweets
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briwref I never knew - croupier was one who rode behind another on a horse (obsolete), croupier, from croupe, rump, croup, from Old French. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/croupier Jul 20, 2009
bilby I used to be a croup. I have too many past lives :-( Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien In Latvian, we use a transliterated form of this word: krupjē. For a long time I believed that what it meant was a toad, because of its striking similarity to the Latvian word for this amphibian krupis. I only got the meaning right when I turned about twelve :/ Jul 30, 2008