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third-person singular simple present fairbanks, present participle fairbanking, simple past and past participle fairbanked
(gambling, slang, transitive) For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle. quotations
I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.
1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227
I didn't check the dart board for the winner's precise total and will assume he hadn't been “fairbanked.” The guy didn't look like a professional, so I attributed his success to the lean and lady luck.
2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes, page 279