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gambling(encyclopedia)
Gambling(law)
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curb(1)(dictionary)

Brush Off - Poker (gambling) and curb(1) (iou)


Brush Off - Poker (gambling)


Give a thief a secret sign to leave; usually brush someone off. This is usually done by a houseman who privately (in such a way as not to embarrass the thief and not to alert the unknowing customers that some of the patrons may not be strictly on the up-and-up) requests a player to leave. The request is often in the form of a finger run unobtrusively up the offender' s spine. It can be a literal brushing motion (hence the name) of one hand down the Other arm, starting below the elbow, across the Other hand, which is palm down, to the fingertips. It can also be a brushing motion of one hand across the upper lip.

curb(1) (iou)



curb noun. See also KERB noun. L15.
[Prob. from CURB verb. Cf. CRUB.]
I.
A chain or strap passing under the lower jaw of a horse and attached to the bit, used chiefly as a check. L15.
W. Holtby The big horse pulled at the curb.
fig. Anything that curbs or restrains; a check, a restraint. E17.
Time Italy has imposed curbs on Japanese motorcycles.
II. Senses corresp. to French courbe curve.
A hard swelling on a horse's leg; the disease characterized by this. E16.
A curve, an arc. obsolete exc. dial. E17.
A mould or template for marking out curved work. L18.
III. An enclosing (orig. curved) framework or border.
A frame round the top of a well or a brewer's copper; the frame of a trapdoor or skylight. E16.
A raised margin or edging, as a fender round a hearth. M18.
An edging of stone etc. to a pavement or raised path; = KERB noun 3. Now N. Amer. L18.
A circular ring or plate round the edge of a dome or Other circular structure; the base of a well. (Earlier as KERB noun 2.) E19.
Comb.: curb-bit, curb-bridle: fitted with a curb; curb-chain: acting as a horse's curb; curb-plate the curb of a dome or a well; the horizontal timber where the upper and lower slopes of a curb roof meet; curb roof: of which each face has two slopes, the lower one being the steeper; curb service N. Amer. service by a shop etc. to customers in cars at the street kerb; curbstone = kerbstone s.v. KERB noun.
curbed adjective having a curb; fig. checked, restrained: L16.
curbless adjective (rare) without curb or restraint E19.