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new buffalo

new buffalo  n.— «Among U.S. Indians, gambling advocates have taken to calling casinos the “new buffalo.” At last count, 224 American tribes had opened gaming operations, in 28 states, hauling in US$25-billion in 2006, more...

crying call

crying call  n.— «Sometimes you face a big bet on the river and you think you’re beat. But you hope you’re not, so you call, only to find out that you indeed were beat. In poker parlance, it is known as a “crying call,” and while it might...

nerfed

nerfed  adj.— «In addition to that, though I thought that, though the colors certainly popped, I felt that the sword should really be a much darker weapon than is portrayed in the reproduction. The bright oranges should have been black or...

eight-liner

eight-liner  n.— «Capt. Steven Jett of the Houston Police Department estimates that Houston has 300 to 400 gaming rooms. Inside, one typically finds row after row of video gaming machines, often called “eight-liners” because...

glitching

glitching  n.— «However, some cheating issues enter a grey area of acceptable behavior. I think “glitching,” a term for exploiting a game’s bugs, falls into one of those categories despite the fact that both professional gamers...