fairbank
See also: Fairbank
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]fairbank (third-person singular simple present fairbanks, present participle fairbanking, simple past and past participle fairbanked)
- (gambling, slang, transitive) For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.
- 1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:
- 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.
- 2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes, page 279:
- 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.