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Fairbank

name

Etymology

From fair + bank.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. derived from *bankiz✻
  3. derived from *banki✻
  4. derived from bank
  5. derived from banca
  6. derived from banque
  7. inherited from banke
  8. compounded as fairbank — “fair + bank”

Definitions

  1. A habitational surname.

  2. A small city in Buchanan County and Fayette County, Iowa, United States.

  3. A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A township in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States.

    2. An island of Chippewa County, Michigan, United States

      An island of Chippewa County, Michigan, United States; in full, Fairbank Island.

    3. A neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    4. A lake in the city of Greater Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Canada.

    5. An island in Fairbank Lake, in northern Ontario.

    6. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

    7. An asteroid in the Solar System

      An asteroid in the Solar System; in full, 67235 Fairbank.

    8. For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage…

      For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.

      • 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.
      • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA