sacrifice in order to gain a later advantage
The chess player made a gambit move that later resulted in his victory.
by The Def Dude January 24, 2017
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When you though anything in the shape of a card at someone. You must yell Gambit. This is in reference to Gambit from the X-Men who threw playing cards.
Christian "Gambit". (As you yell gambit you throw the card)
I love to Gambitting.
by Gambitting February 26, 2010
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Totally badass X-Man of Cajun decent.

Adopted into the Thieves Guild of New Orleans as a child, Remy LeBeau become a master thief. He also learned several forms of hand-to-hand combat, including the use of a bo staff, and can throw many different types of objects with deadly accuracy.

After being forced to flee the Thieves Guild, Gambit eventually met long-time X-woman Storm, who sponsored his memebership into the X-Men.

Gambit wears a trenchcoat, breastplate, and high metal boots. His mutant abilities include enhanced agility, the ability to charge objects with an unknown form of explosive energy, and discolored eyes which are black with red pupils. He always carries several decks of playing cards for charging and throwing as weapons. He also carries a long metal bo staff and a bag full of skeleton keys.

Gambit has had a long-standing relationship with Rogue, another member of the X-Men. Recently, both she and Gambit lost their powers in a fight with inter-dimensional invaders.
Gambit may not be the most powerful X-Man, but he's certainly the coolest.
by Anonymous September 22, 2003
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Gambit: Refers to your boner, however not just any boner. Your wood must be a raging pulsating industrial sized boner, only then is it up to the level of Gambit.
"I have such a raging hard Gambit right now its about to explode!"
by Gambit_The_Cat November 4, 2009
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GAMBIT:
1. Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
2. any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
"Man, I thought you had him when you were picking off all his guys, but he was just running a gambit on your ass."

"O.K., we're loosing this battle, unless we do something quick we're all going to be killed. We need to run a gambit on them. Half of us are going to flank thier rear."
by Russel Dicks October 26, 2007
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A gambit, according to Oxford Dictionary, is either a trick used in chess to gain the upper hand or a trick used to actually gain the upper hand in the outset of a situation.
Scenario 1:
Person 1: "Your dad is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Person 2: "lmfao which one bruv"

Later:
Person 2 to a friend: "this was a gambit i used to counter-attack the urdadgay insult"

Scenario 2:
So apparently, I played the Danish Gambit to have both my bishops out, but whaddaya know, Black was a Protestant and attacked my light square bishop.
by dippingsauce11 May 18, 2020
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Getting sniped from a random location with no warning in destiny 2
*gets headshot and does a double back flip* wtf I just got gambitted
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