gamble

was sent this message not sure in what reference


v.gam·bled, gam·bling, gam·bles
v.intr.
1.
a. To bet on an uncertain outcome, as of a contest.
b. To play a game of chance for stakes.
2. To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit.
3. To engage in reckless or hazardous behavior: You are gambling with your health by continuing to smoke.
v.tr.
1. To put up as a stake in gambling; wager.
2. To expose to hazard; risk: gambled their lives in a dangerous rescue mission.
n.
1. A bet, wager, or other gambling venture.
2. An act or undertaking of uncertain outcome; a risk: I took a gamble that stock prices would rise.


Food for thought for your "posters"!

What I have always been told " the game is called gambling and not winning as in fishing and not catching!"

I always had to laugh when Tellytrack insisted on calling it "an investment". Surely they couldn't be serious?

Mind you, some investments are pretty close to gambles.

Seems to me like superman sent that to his haters

v.intr.
1.
a. To bet on an uncertain outcome,as of a contest.
A bet amongst the local lads as to who could bed the "comely lass" who had four large brothers.
I won.(written from my hospital bed after a "leak" from one of the lads.