croupier

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See also: Croupier

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French croupier.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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croupier (plural croupiers)

  1. The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
    • 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:
      Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.
  2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Further reading

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  • croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

  1. croupier

Descendants

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  • English: croupier
  • German: Croupier
  • Polish: krupier
  • Romanian: crupier
  • Spanish: crupier
  • Swedish: croupier
  • Turkish: krupiye

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Spanish

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Noun

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croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)

  1. Alternative form of crupier

Swedish

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Etymology

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From French croupier, attested from 1780.[1]

Noun

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croupier c

  1. a croupier

Declension

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