subs. (old).—1.  A prostitute. For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.

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  1598.  SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, v. 3. She’s impudent, my lord, and was a common GAMESTER to the camp.

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  1614.  JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. Ay, ay, GAMESTERS, mocke a plain soft wench of the suburbs, do.

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  1620.  PERCY, Folio MSS., p. 404, ‘Come Wanton Wenches.’

        Be not att ffirst to nice nor coye
  when GAMSTERS you are courtinge.

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  2.  (old).—A ruffler; a gallant; a wencher; a man fit and ready for anything; also a player.

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  1639–61.  Rump, i., 253, ‘A Medley.’ Room for a GAMESTER that flies at all he sees.

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  1676.  ETHEREGE, The Man of Mode, v., 1. Live it also like a frank GAMESTER, on the square.

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