monte

noun Cards.

1. Also called monte bank. a gambling game played with a 40-card pack in which players bet that one of two layouts, each consisting of two cards drawn from either the top or bottom of the deck and turned face up, will be matched in suit by the next card turned up.
2. three-card monte(def 1).

noun

1. a male given name.

noun

1. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.

noun

1. a gambling card game of Spanish origin
2. Australian informal a certainty

n.gambling card game, 1824, from Spanish monte “mountain,” from Latin montem (nominative mons), see mount (n.). So called from the heap of cards left after dealing. A favorite in California during the gold rush years. The three-card form (first attested 1877) is of Mexican origin.