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big casino
noun- the best that you can do; your greatest resource US, 1922
- Jimmy had written a $2,500,000 life insurance policy on Hill. Ask your insurance agent whether that would be peanuts or the big casino in the insurance. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 10, 17 March 1950
- The big casino in Nixon’s over-all program is the next stage of the Vietnam troop withdrawals. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. A-2, 14 September 1969
- Jerry Brown should go for the Big Casino [Headline] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 31, 16 March 1976
- cancer US, 1951
- His grin was forced. He knows he’s got Big Casino–cancer. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. III-6, 7 May 1967
- Wee Willie Wilkin, former St. Mary’s College tackle (so named because at 270 he was considered the largest item in football during the ’30s) is fighting the Big Casino. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 48, 14 December 1971
- “If you still want to do that book, we better get started awful sudden, because I’ve got cancer. Big Casino.” — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 11, 1972
- “It’s true, Billy,” he said, gazing bleakly at his glass. “Big casino. It’s hopeless.” — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, p. 5, 27 February 1983
- any sexually transmitted infection US
- Nitti, like Capone, had picked up in his travels the occupational malady of the underworld, euphemistically known as the capital prize, or big casino. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 14, 23 February 1948
- It was hinted that poor, departed Will had once acquired a case of what the boys call big casino, which ended in the same paresis that finished Al Capone. — San Francisco News, p. 11, 8 October 1951
- capital punishment, the death penalty US
- Will “Call Me Bernie” for Big Casino. Yes, say the results of an informal poll of the Nation’s press covering the sensational Finch murder trial here. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 12, 22 January 1960
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