fairbank

present singular third person fairbanks · participle present fairbanking · participle past fairbanked · past fairbanked

1. slangtransitivegamblingFor the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.

   I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.

   1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227

   1 more example

   I didn't check the dart board for the winner's precise total and will assume he hadn't been “fairbanked.” The guy didn't look like a professional, so I attributed his success to the lean and lady luck.

   2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes, page 279

plural Fairbanks · alternative Fairbanks

1. countableuncountableA habitational surname.
2. countableuncountableA small city in Buchanan County and Fayette County, Iowa, United States.
3. countableuncountableA ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
4. countableuncountableA township in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States.
5. countableuncountableAn island of Chippewa County, Michigan, United States; in full, Fairbank Island.
6. countableuncountableA neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
7. countableuncountableA lake in the city of Greater Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Canada.
8. countableuncountableAn island in Fairbank Lake, in northern Ontario.
9. countableuncountableA locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
10. countableuncountableAn asteroid in the Solar System; in full, 67235 Fairbank.

    Synonyms: mul:2000 EJ15, mul:(67235) 2000 EJ15, mul:67235 (2000 EJ15) Fairbank, Asteroid 67235