croupier

Borrowed from French croupier.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹupiɚ/, /ˈkɹupieɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuːpɪə/, /ˈkɹuːpieɪ/

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• Rhymes: -uːpiə(ɹ), -uːpieɪ

croupier (plural croupiers)

1. 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.

2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

• croupier stick

• “croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.pje/

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croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

1. croupier

• → English: croupier
• → German: Croupier
• → Polish: krupier
• → Romanian: crupier
• → Spanish: crupier
• → Swedish: croupier
• → Turkish: krupiye

• “croupier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)

1. Alternative form of crupier

From French croupier, attested from 1780.[1]

croupier c

1. a croupier