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Croupier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The croupier is standing in for the house but usually has no personal stake in the game. |
 | | The word may also be used to refer to the person who sits as assistant chairman at the lower end of the table at a dinner party. |
 | | The word (A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing) croup referred to the rump of a quadruped; a person who rides behind another person on a horse is seated on the animal's rump, hence the name. |
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