hốt cái
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To hold the bank (act as banker) in a game of lú, a kind of gambling.
vi Trong truyện cũ bà tôi đọc, gã trọc phú đêm nào cũng hốt cái ở chiếu bạc đầu làng.
en In the old story my grandmother read, the upstart rich man was the banker at the gambling mat at the edge of the village every night.