Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who gambles; one addicted to gaming or playing for money or other stakes; a gamester.
Wiktionary
- n. One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.
- n. One who takes risks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gambles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
- n. a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
Etymologies
- to gamble + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense.”
The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But he also is one of the biggest gambles as he is a classic high-risk, high-return sort of riverboat gambler from the back end.”
“Where's that little pale printer's devil, the one they call the gambler's ghost?”
“The short or intermediate term gambler or speculator would wait for some better confirmation of a turn around of trend before risking capital.”
“Mr Benjamin complained of Mr Russell of the 'Times' for holding him up to fame as a "gambler" -- a story which he understood Mr Russell had learnt from Mr Charles Sumner at Washington.”
“The Palin pick already, as Noemie Emery wrote, “Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.””
“He does not come across as a gambler, which is why it must have really killed him to take a flier in Fleischer, buying a "pig in a poke" by granting him immunity on the blind.”
“A contrarian who is wrong more often than right is called a gambler at best, a loose cannon or a wingnut at worst.”
“The next meme is that the Palin pick “wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.””
“The curse of the gambler is the corruption of such talents by a lack of self-control.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gambler’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, artist, anarchist, bagman, arsonist, yuppie, yakuza underling, yakuza oyabun, yakuza lieutenant, writer, white trash and 192 more...
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for gambler.
Prolagus GAMblEr. Apr 23, 2008