pit boss

noun

: a person who supervises the gaming tables in a casino

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The pit boss, however, needed to suit up in trousers made of a more dignified fabric, monitor gamblers at arm’s length and glad-hand with regulars. — 1843, 19 June 2020 Her new husband was a pit boss at Caesars Palace with a degree from Stanford University. — Mark Sundeen, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2025 There’s her first cousin who worked in housekeeping; her grandfather who was a casino pit boss; an uncle who was a maintenance engineer; a cousin who was a cocktail waitress; nieces and nephews who work the front desks of big hotels. — Isabel González Whitaker, ELLE, 22 Sep. 2022 In the ‘40s Jack Durant worked as a pit boss at the Flamingo Hotel for legendary gangster Bugsey Siegal. — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2022

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First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pit boss was in 1939

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