croupier
Americannoun
plural
croupiers-
an attendant in a gambling casino who rakes in money or chips and pays winners at a gaming table.
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an assistant chairperson at a public dinner.
noun
Etymology
Origin of croupier
1700–10; < French: literally, one who sits behind another on horseback, equivalent to croupe rump ( croup 2 ) + -ier -ier 2
Example Sentences
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Then, like a croupier dealing cards, he laid out all the stakes: each one a reason to keep looking.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022
A broke writer gets a job as a croupier and becomes involved with a woman who wants to rob his casino.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020
He treated her to haircuts in fashionable Mayfair, where he was working as a croupier.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2017
He had grown up in Monaco, where as a young man he had worked as a croupier at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, and developed an excellent poker face.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
He was seated, in front of you, next to the croupier.
From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)
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