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