gambler

[ UK /ɡˈæmblɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæmbɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
  2. someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
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How To Use gambler In A Sentence

  • Each gambler is subjected to a battery of psychological tests prior to the treatment program, and again at the completion of the program.
  • Learn about regular vs. high low strategies in stud poker in this free casino poker instructional video from our expert card player and professional casino gambler.
  • This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
  • Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense. The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
  • Online gambling and spread-betting are now the highest risk areas of addiction for problem gamblers, according to a survey published yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • The case may establish for the first time that bookmakers owe a duty of care to compulsive gamblers. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are more than half a million problem gamblers and calls to the country's leading helpline rose by more than a third in the last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers.
  • Mr Benjamin complained of Mr Russell of the 'Times' for holding him up to fame as a "gambler" -- a story which he understood Mr Russell had learnt from Mr Charles Sumner at Washington. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
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