gamblerlike
English
Etymology
gambler + -like
Adjective
gamblerlike (comparative more gamblerlike, superlative most gamblerlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a gambler.
- c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:
- He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything.
- 2007, James Huneker, Melomaniacs
- I knew that if I failed it would kill my parents, who, gamblerlike, were staking their very existence on my success.
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