Meanings
plural gambling hells
- UKderogatoryinformalsometimesSynonym 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 138Synonyms: gambling house
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of gambling house.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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gambling hell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gambling%20hell
“gambling hell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gambling%20hell. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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