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carpet joint
noun
a fancy, high-class casino US, 1961- — John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, p. 463, 1974
- [S]etting up shop in the various “carpet” joints on the Strip and “sawdust” joints downtown. — Ovid Demaris, The Last Mafioso, p. 57, 1981
- And he saw the “carpet joint” for what it was–an institution designed with neither windows, doors, chairs, nor wall clocks in order to mesmerize the tourists therein trapped into losing track of time and place as they squandered money. — Gerald Petievich, Shakedown, p. 64, 1988
- I used ta only work carpet joints ‘cause the ritzy casinos didn’t float the dice. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 215, 1997
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