shake one's elbow
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shake one's elbow (third-person singular simple present shakes one's elbow, present participle shaking one's elbow, simple past shook one's elbow, past participle shaken one's elbow)
- (slang, archaic) To gamble with dice.
- 1739, George Whitefield, The Life ... of ... G. W., page 93:
- When a little after as I passed by (the publick Kitchen just before mentioned) I saw him shaking his Elbow over a Gaming Table.
- 1837, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 41, page 520:
- Come with me this very moment, I will take you to a house where you will see him shaking his elbow in good earnest.