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tell noun- an unintentionally honest reaction; a revealing piece of body-language UK
Adopted from gambling jargon. - Everybody, you, me, got a “tell”. A tell is something where you can tell if somebody’s a little bit worried, a bit nervous, a bit anxious. [...] I always like to find out what people’s “tell” is. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 137, 1999
- in gambling, any mannerism that reveals the relative value of the player’s hand US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 83, 1991
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