[gam-bling]

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[gam-buhl]

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Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2018

I was not with him on the 29th when he was gambling and then drove home and actually got the DUI.

She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow heads, you win would have been politically more advantageous than tails, I lose.

Is gambling culture more desirable than gay culture and counterculture?

But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.

By joining a private equity firm, the former Florida governor and 2016 hopeful is gambling with his reputation.

It's Bill that's spent the money on his cussed booze and gambling.

The gambling houses can do it, and so keep on breaking the law.

My brother should have supported them, but all his money went on the race course, gambling.

This modified form of gambling is especially dangerous to the young.

There was only one passion which he did not concealthe passion for gambling.

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C18: probably variant of game 1

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

1726 (implied in gambling), from a dialectal survival of Middle English gammlen, variant of gamenen "to play, jest, be merry," from Old English gamenian "to play, joke, pun," from gamen (see game). Or possibly gamble is from a derivative of gamel "to play games" (1590s), itself likely a frequentative from game. Originally regarded as a slang word. The intrusive -b- may be from confusion with gambol. Related: Gambled; gambling.

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"risky venture," 1823, from gamble (v.).

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Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper

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