croupier

Borrowed from French croupier.

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion. Indeed, I have an idea that sheer robbery was going on around that gaming-table. The croupiers who sat at the two ends of it had not only to watch the stakes, but also to calculate the game—an immense amount of work for two men! As for the crowd itself—well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.

   • 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.

From croupe +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.pje/

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croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)

1. croupier

• → Catalan: crupier
• → 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