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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French croupier.
Pronunciation
Noun
croupier (plural croupiers)
- The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
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.
- One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
Derived terms
Translations
person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table
- Bulgarian: крупие n (krupie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 赌场上的总管理人 (dǔchǎng shàng de zǒng guǎnlǐ rén), 副主持人 (fù zhǔchí rén)
- Czech: krupiér m
- Dutch: croupier (nl) m, spelleider (nl) m, spelleidster f
- Estonian: krupjee
- Finnish: krupieeri (fi)
- French: croupier (fr) m, croupière (fr) f
- German: Croupier (de) m, Croupière (de) f
- Greek: κρουπιέρης (el) m (kroupiéris), κρουπιέρισσα (el) f (kroupiérissa)
- Hungarian: krupié (hu)
- Indonesian: bandar (id)
- Macedonian: крупие́ n (krupié)
- Polish: krupier (pl) m, krupierka (pl) f
- Russian: крупье́ (ru) m (krupʹjé)
- Spanish: crupier (es) m, tallador (es) m, talladora (es) f, repartidor de casino m, repartidora de casino f
- Swedish: croupier (sv) c
- Turkish: krupiye (tr)
- Vietnamese: người hồ lì
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Further reading
- “croupier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
croupier m (plural croupiers, feminine croupière)
- croupier
Descendants
Further reading
Spanish
Noun
croupier m (plural croupieres or croupiers)
- Alternative form of crupier
Swedish
Etymology
From French croupier, attested from 1780.
Noun
croupier c
- a croupier
Declension
References