Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a casino.

Etymologies

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casino +‎ -like

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Examples

  • And, in frustration, he had been increasingly vocal about the need for the administration to clamp down on what he described as the casinolike operations at the big banks that nearly destroyed the financial system in the first place.

    DealBook 2010

  • [The] 9 percent drop in the Shanghai composite index reflects the casinolike behavior of domestic investors.

    The Lay of the Land 2007

  • And, in frustration, he had been increasingly vocal about the need for the administration to clamp down on what he described as the same sort of casinolike operations at the big banks that nearly destroyed the financial system in the first place.

    International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions 2010

  • And, in frustration, he had been increasingly vocal about the need for the administration to clamp down on what he described as the same sort of casinolike operations at the big banks that nearly destroyed the financial system in the first place.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • And, in frustration, he had been increasingly vocal about the need for the administration to clamp down on what he described as the same sort of casinolike operations at the big banks that nearly destroyed the financial system in the first place.

    NYT > Global Home 2010

  • And, in frustration, he had been increasingly vocal about the need for the administration to clamp down on what he described as the same sort of casinolike operations at the big banks that nearly destroyed the financial system in the first place.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • It doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, or what season; the airport is always bustling, crowded as if for the holidays, with a jangly, giddy, casinolike energy.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • It doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, or what season; the airport is always bustling, crowded as if for the holidays, with a jangly, giddy, casinolike energy.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

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