ˈchuck-a-ˌluck N. Amer.
Also chuck-luck, chuckle luck.
[app. f. chuck v.2 2 + luck n.]
A gambling game played with dice.
| 1836 in W. T. Porter Quarter Race in Kentucky (1847) 24, I thought I'd make a rise on chuck-a-luck, but you prehaps never saw such a run of luck. 1845 J. J. Hooper Adv. S. Suggs (1851) ix. 111 A chuck-a-luck table. 1856 Liberator 12 Jan. XXVI. 12 Leper and Doolin got into a quarrel over a game called ‘chuckle luck’. 1879 Southern Hist. Soc. Papers VII. 489 Cards, monte, roulette, keno, faro, chuck-a-luck, and in fact every game of chance known. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Jan. 1/4 The Chinese play ‘pie-gow’, which is alleged to be a gambling game, although difficult to prove as such. But ‘fan-tan’ and ‘chuck-luck’ are said to have been totally suppressed. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights i. x. 165 And a man's so sick of himself by the time he gets this far that he'd play chuck-a-luck. 1944 Harper's Mag. June 53/1 Several crap tables and chuck-luck layouts. 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency ii. 15 You fancy craps, roulette, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck, or just plain whoring? |