伝でん助すけ賭と博ばく

noun

deceptive street gambling; shell game; densuke

Historical term for a type of street fraud involving rigged betting games, especially a roulette-like game called 伝助 (densuke). The broader sense covers any similar trickery.

• 伝でん助すけ賭と博ばくは、昭しょう和わ初しょ期きに盛さかんだったという。

  Densuke gambling is said to have been widespread in the early Showa period.

• あの露ろ店てんは伝でん助すけ賭と博ばくまがいのことをしている。

  That street stall is running something like a densuke scam.