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tune, make a bet, lay a wager or bet, Inf. shoot craps, Inf. play the ponies; speculate, venture, play the market, play the wheel, play roulette; risk, hazard, dare, tempt Providence. See - gamble (defs. 1, 2). gamut, n. entire range, complete scale, complete sequence, whole series, full sweep, full compass, entire scope; Music, the major scale.

gamy, adj. 1. slightly tainted, strong, strong tasting, high-flavored, Inf. high, Inf. hung; rank, strong smelling, pungent.

2. plucky, spirited, spunky, courageous; persistent, tenacious. See - game (defs. 10, 11). gang, n. 1. group, band, pack, company, crowd, gathering.
2. clique, social group, set, coterie, circle; club, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority; party, Politics, machine, Politics, junta, Politics, cabal.
3. squad, shift, team, troop, detachment, Inf. outfit; posse, search party.
4. criminal band, group of thieves, band of brigands,
group of bandits, underworld mob, mob, Inf. family, -v. 5.

gang up on Informal, combine against,
conspire or plot against, Inf. get; ambush, attack, surround, SI. mug.

gangling, adj. lanky, rangy, spindly, spindling, loosely built, awkwardly tall; slender, skinny, rawboned, stringy; gauche, ungraceful, ungainly,

gangster, n. 1. mobster, racketeer, mafioso, desperado, terrorist; thug, tough, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, SI. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, SI. bad actor, SI. gunsel, SI. mug, Australian SI. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock, (in Paris) apache.
2. assassin, murderer, killer, slayer, sniper; strangler, cutthroat, garroter; liquidator, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; gunman, All U.S. SI. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, hatchet man, torpedo.
3. bandit, hold-up man, SI. stick-up man, armed robber; robber, thief, Inf. crook, stealer, Fagin; criminal, felon, larcener; convict, SI. jailbird, parolee, ex-convict, Inf. ex-con; recidivist, repeat offender, Inf. chronic crook.
4. extortionist, extortioner, blackmailer, usurer, loan shark, SI. bleeder; smuggler, runner, bootlegger, contrabandist, white-slaver; swindler, confidence man, con artist, con man; forger, counterfeiter, Fr. faux-monnayeur, Brit. Inf. coiner.
5. villain, blackguard, miscreant, malefactor, evildoer, Inf. bad guy.

gap, n. 1. opening, hole, cavity, space, aperture, orifice, mouth, foramen; breach, separation, break, fracture, rent, rift, fissure, cleft, Archaic, scissure; chink, crack, crevice, cranny; groove, furrow, trench; defile, pass, canyon, gorge, ravine, gully, gulch, barranca, arroyo, couloir, Western North America. coulee, Brit. Dial, clough; notch, score, scratch, cut, slit, split, gash, incision.
2. blank, emptiness, vacuum, void, vacancy, gape, lacuna; break, hiatus, interruption, disruption, Prosody. caesura, Physiol, synapse; pause, rest, recess, lull, halt, stop, stand-still, time out; cessation, abatement, discontinuance, suspension, suspense, abeyance; delay, wait, deferment, postponement; interstice, interval, interim, intermission, intermittence, intermit-tency.

gape, v. 1. gawk, goggle, stare open-mouthed, show astonishment, Inf. rubberneck; regard with awe, stare at, stare curiously, ogle.

2. yawn, dehisce, open up, open wide, extend wide; part, crack, split,

garb, n. 1. dress, costume, habit, outfit; livery,