gamble
Gamble is defined as to take a risk, or to play games especially with money for betting.
(verb)An example of gamble is to play the slots in Las Vegas.
The definition of a gamble is a risk.
(noun)An example of a gamble is the act of betting that a certain team will win a game.
See gamble in Webster's New World College Dictionary
intransitive verb gambled, gambling
- to play games of chance for money or some other stake
- to take a risk in order to gain some advantage
Origin: prob. back-form. < obs. gamler, a gambler < gamel, to play (altered < ME gamen, to play < game, game) + -er: akin to Ger dial. gammeln, to sport, make merry
transitive verb
noun
Related Forms:
- gambler noun
See gamble in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb gam·bled, gam·bling, gam·bles verb, intransitive
- a. To bet on an uncertain outcome, as of a contest.b. To play a game of chance for stakes.
- To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit.
- To engage in reckless or hazardous behavior: You are gambling with your health by continuing to smoke.
- To put up as a stake in gambling; wager.
- To expose to hazard; risk: gambled their lives in a dangerous rescue mission.
- A bet, wager, or other gambling venture.
- An act or undertaking of uncertain outcome; a risk: I took a gamble that stock prices would rise.
Origin:
Origin: Perhaps from obsolete gamel, to play games
Origin: , from Middle English gamen, gamenen, to play
Origin: , from Old English gamenian
Origin: , from gamen, fun
.Related Forms:
- gamˈbler noun
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