croupier
See also: Croupier
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French croupier.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹupiɚ/, /ˈkɹupieɪ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹuːpɪə/, /ˈkɹuːpieɪ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uːpiə(ɹ), -uːpieɪ
Noun
croupier (plural croupiers)
- The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
- 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.
- 1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
Derived terms
- croupier stick
Translations
person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table
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Further reading
- croupier at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁu.pje/
Audio (file)
Noun
croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)
- croupier
Descendants
- → English: croupier
- → German: Croupier
- → Polish: krupier
- → Romanian: crupier
- → Spanish: crupier
- → Swedish: croupier
- → Turkish: krupiye
Further reading
- “croupier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Noun
croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)
- Alternative form of crupier
Swedish
Etymology
From French croupier, attested from 1780.[1]
Noun
croupier c
- a croupier
Declension
Declension of croupier | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | croupier | croupieren | croupierer | croupiererna |
Genitive | croupiers | croupierens | croupierers | croupierernas |
References
- croupier in Svensk ordbok.