gambling hell

English

Noun

gambling hell (plural gambling hells)

  1. (UK, informal, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of gambling house.
    • 1844, Jonathan Harrington Green, Gambling Unmasked! Or The Personal Experience of J.H. Green, The Reformed Gambler, page 138:
      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.

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