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gambling hells

gambling hells is the plural of gambling hell.

Meaning of gambling hell

Noun

gambling hell (plural gambling hells)

  1. (UK, derogatory, informal, sometimes) Synonym of gambling house.
    • They bribed a certain class of merchants - worthy of no better name than the devil's stool pigeons - who infested that city, to induce the young man to drink until he became intoxicated, and then take him to their gambling hell.1844, Jonathan Harrington Green, Gambling Unmasked! Or The Personal Experience of J.H. Green, The Reformed Gambler, page 138
    Synonyms:
    gambling house

Questions about gambling hells

What is gambling hells the plural of?
Gambling hells is the plural of gambling hell.

Words near gambling hells in the dictionary

  1. gambling den
  2. gambling dens
  3. gambling disorder
  4. gambling disordered
  5. gambling hell
  6. gambling hells
  7. gambling house
  8. gambling houses
  9. gambling joint
  10. gambling joints
  11. gamblings

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