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fairbanking

fairbanking is the present participle and gerund of fairbank.

Meaning of fairbank

Verb

fairbank (third-person singular simple present fairbanks, present participle fairbanking, simple past and past participle fairbanked)

  1. (slang, transitive) For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.
    • I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227

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Questions about fairbanking

What is fairbanking the present participle and gerund of?
Fairbanking is the present participle and gerund of fairbank.

Words near fairbanking in the dictionary

  1. Fairalls
  2. Fairbairn
  3. Fairbairns
  4. fairbank
  5. fairbanked
  6. fairbanking
  7. fairbankite
  8. fairbanks
  9. Fairbanks North Star Borough
  10. Fairbanks Ranch
  11. Fairbanksian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairbanking (page history and authors); fairbank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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