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Her new husband was a pit boss at Caesars Palace with a degree from Stanford University.
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Mark Sundeen, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, on the street, four people associated with those involved in the skimming scheme have been murdered since 1975: two Chicago gangsters who worked in Las Vegas, a former business associate of Glick and a pit boss who worked for Glick.
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Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
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.
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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.
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Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2022
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.
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1843, 19 June 2020
Working-class Kay (Lawson), a casino pit boss, and handyman Mike (Biggs) barely got through high school, but they’re determined to bring some degree of normalcy to a home with three sky-high-IQ kids.
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Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
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First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Pit boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pit%20boss. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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