croupier
noun
Examples of croupier in a Sentence
Dan Hernandez, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2023
The croupier’s smile withers.
—Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
Three billion, the croupier replies.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Feb. 2021
For Leah Santiago-Mandalano, a 39-year-old mother of two from the Philippines, a job as a croupier in Morocco ended when Covid-19 closed the casino in early 2020.
—Jason Douglas, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
Altmann referred to a cartoon published Wednesday in The Times of London, showing Johnson as a croupier, tossing a single coronavirus into a roulette wheel.
—NBC News, 17 May 2021
Couldn’t block a casino croupier in the run game vs. a horrible run defense.
—Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
In casino halls packed into this city’s premium high-rise office towers, young, skimpily dressed croupiers deal cards and flash winning smiles for Chinese gamblers.
—Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2019
His production, which opened in Monte Carlo in 2004 and traveled to Lyric in 2006-07, sets the action in a luxury hotel on the Mediterranean at the outset of World War I. Alfonso is the croupier in a fancy casino.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
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Word History
borrowed from French, earlier, "person who stands behind the banker at basset (a card game) to call out the cards and deal with stakes, person associated with a gambler who stands behind him at the table," from croupier, adjective, "sitting on the croup of a horse behind the rider in the saddle," from croupe croup entry 1 + -ier -ier
1709, in the meaning defined above
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“Croupier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/croupier. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
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