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bust-out joint
noun
a casino or gambling establishment that cheats gamblers US, 1979- Bust-out joints, of which there are some two dozen in Newport, got their name from the recognized practice of not letting a customer out until he’s “bust,” one way or another. — Monroe Fry, Sex, Vice, and Business, p. 8, 1959
- I started in this business behind the bar in bust-out joints on Third Street. Strippers hustling drinks between their numbers. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 151, 1979
- — Frank Scoblete, Guerrilla Gambling, p. 299, 1993
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