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gam·bit

 noun \ˈgam-bət\

Definition of GAMBIT

1

: a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position

2

a (1) : a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point (2) : topic

b : a calculated move : stratagem

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Examples of GAMBIT

1. <I couldn't tell whether her earlier poor-mouthing had been sincere or just a gambit to get me to pick up the dinner check.>

Origin of GAMBIT

Italian gambetto, literally, act of tripping someone, fromgamba leg, from Late Latin gamba, camba, from Greekkampē bend; probably akin to Gothic hamfs maimed, Lithuanian kampas corner

First Known Use: 1656

Related to GAMBIT

Synonyms

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, trick, gimmick, jig,juggle, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight,stratagem, wile

Related Words

bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft,crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery,jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery),subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham,swindle; blind, front, smoke screen

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Other Game Terms

bezique, carom, convention, crap, euchre, monte, parlay,tierce

Rhymes with GAMBIT

ambit

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