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gamble-play

gamble-play noun: the process in which gambling is increasingly mediated by digital features, bringing it closer to a video game.

Noun

gamble-play (uncountable)

  1. The process in which gambling is increasingly mediated by digital features, bringing it closer to a video game.

Origin of gamble-play

From gamble + play. Coined by critic César Albarrán-Torres in 2018 under the original term gamble-play media.

Questions about gamble-play

What does gamble-play mean?
Gamble-play means the process in which gambling is increasingly mediated by digital features, bringing it closer to a video game.
What part of speech is gamble-play?
Gamble-play is a noun.

Words near gamble-play in the dictionary

  1. gambit
  2. gambited
  3. gambiting
  4. gambits
  5. gamble
  6. gamble-play
  7. gambled
  8. gambler
  9. gambler's cop
  10. gambler's cops
  11. gambler's fallacy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gamble-play (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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