banco

1. not comparableBeing or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.

plural bancos

1. attributiveA bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

   banco money

   1 more example

   On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.

   1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe

2. gamblingIn baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.

   Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

   1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23

present singular third person bancos · participle present bancoing · participle past bancoed · past bancoed

1. gamblingIn baccarat or chemin de fer, to bet an amount equal to the entire bankroll currently being offered by the banker.

   1 more example

   The then only hope, thought Bond, was to stamp on him now. Not to share the bank with the table, or to take some minor part of it, but to go the whole hog. This would really jolt Le Chiffre. He would hate to see more than ten or fifteen million of the stake covered, and he could not possibly expect anyone to banco the entire thirty-two millions.

   1953, Ian Fleming, “The Deadly Tube”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 86

1. A barangay of Palanas, Masbate, Philippines.