"whale" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: whale

Part of speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: Lanni courts the casino’s best clients—“whales,” in industry parlance—taking semiannual trips to Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai and Singapore, where he hosts as many as three dinners in one night.

Article or document title:
“Harrah’s, MGM Mirage Duel for Supremacy on the Las Vegas Strip” (URL)

Author:
Adam Levy, Jeannine DeFoe

Article, document, publication, web site:
Bloomberg.com

Date of publication:
Mar. 2, 2005

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