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fairbanks

/ˈfɛɹbæŋks/

fairbanks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Fairbanks

Fairbanks

  1. A habitational surname. An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places named "fair bank" etc.
    • But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.2011 April 9, Marc Lacey, “Spraying to Make Yards Green ... but With Paint, Not Water”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020
  2. A placename
    1. A city in Alaska.
    2. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Sullivan County, Indiana.
    3. A township in Delta County, Michigan.
    4. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Fairbanks

Fairbanks

  1. (plural) plural of Fairbank

Forms of fairbanks

alternative formFairbank

Origin of fairbanks

From fair + bank.

Words formed from fairbanks

Phrases with fairbanks

Questions about fairbanks

What does fairbanks mean?
Fairbanks means a habitational surname. An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places named "fair bank" etc.
What is fairbanks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fairbanks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fairbank.
What part of speech is fairbanks?
Fairbanks is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fairbanks?
Fairbanks is pronounced /ˈfɛɹbæŋks/.

Words near fairbanks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairbanks (page history and authors); Fairbanks (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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