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Croupier

Definition: Croupier

Croupier

Noun

1. Someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "croupier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Synonyms within Context: Croupier

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Director

Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Croupier

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A croupier is the person who takes and pays out bets at a gambling table. The croupier is standing in for the house but usually has no personal stake in the game. Games that commonly use croupiers are blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps.

The word may also be used to refer to the person who sits as assistant chairman at the lower end of the table at a dinner party.

The modern usage derives from Old French, where it referred to the hindmost person of two riding the same horse. The word croup referred to the rump of a quadruped; a person who rides behind another person on a horse is seated on the animal's rump, hence the name.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Croupier."

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Crosswords: Croupier

English words defined with "croupier": croupier's rake. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Croupier" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (croupier), German (croupier), Italian (croupier), Spanish (croupier), Swedish (croupier).

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Modern Usage: Croupier

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

El croupier Freddy (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Croupier

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cash My Chips, Croupier [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Croupier (ScreenPress Film Screenplays) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Croupier

Photos:
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Spoken Usage: Croupier

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

In the Catholic priest sex scandal, almost as shocking as the acts themselves was the way the local dioceses refused to take responsibility for their clergymen, instead shuffling them more frantically than a croupier with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Croupier

"Croupier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Croupier" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2372,767

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Croupier

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

croupier

35
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Croupier

Language Translations for "croupier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

punonjës i kazinos, krupier. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موظف نادى القمار, ‏مدير اللعبة في نادي القمار. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

крупие (dealer, shuffler). (various references)

   

Czech

  

krupiér. (various references)

   

French

  

croupier. (various references)

   

German

  

croupier. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρουπιέρησ, επιστάτησ χαρτοπαιγνίου. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

krupié. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

botoh (shapely), bandar (ditch, dock, duct, harbour, port, trading-town, water course). (various references)

   

Italian

  

croupier. (various references)

   

Manx

  

corlaigeyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oupiercray

   

Portuguese

  

crupiê. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

crupier. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

крупье. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krupje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

crupier, crupié. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

croupier. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kumar oynatan görevli, krupiye (dealer). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

круп'", банківник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Croupier

Derivations

Words beginning with "croupier": croupiers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Croupier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cornulier, Couepia, Croucier, croupe, groupier. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Croupier"

Words rhyming with "croupier" (pronounced 'Crou"pi*er'): Abaiser, Abandoner, Abaser, Abater, Abhorrer, Abider, Abjurer, Abolisher, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Abutter, Acater, Acceder, Accelerometer, Accepter, Accipenser, Accipiter, Acclaimer, Accompanier, Accomplisher, Accorder, Accruer, Accumber, Accuser, Acetifier, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Achiever, Acidifier, Acidimeter, Acipenser, Acknowledger, Acoumeter, Acquirer, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adducer, Adelaster, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admeasurer. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Croupier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-r-u"

-1 letter: courier, procure, roupier.

-2 letters: copier, corrie, croupe, currie, orrice, pourer, pricer, recoup, repour, ropier.

-3 letters: coper, corer, coupe, crier, cripe, crore, croup, cruor, curer, curie, curio, ourie, price, prier, prior, purer, recur, repro, ricer, riper, roper, ureic.

-4 letters: cero, cire, coir, cope, core, coup, crop, cure, curr, ecru, epic, euro, peri, pice, pier, pore.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: croupiers.

 

+2 letters: corruptive, precarious, supermicro.

 

+3 letters: corruptible, cupriferous, incorrupted, neurotropic, reproducing, supermicros.

 

+4 letters: archesporium, corruptively, peritrichous, precariously, recuperation, repercussion, reproducible, reproducibly, reproduction, reproductive, superorganic.

 

+5 letters: countersniper, incorruptible, incorruptness, microcomputer, micropuncture, overproducing, perfunctorily, perichondrium, precautionary, preproduction, prosecutorial, proventriculi, recuperations, repercussions, reproducibles, reproductions, reproductives, supercollider, superromantic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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