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Horse-race bet taker
Answer for the clue "Horse-race bet taker ", 6 letters:
bookie
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Word definitions for bookie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885, colloquial shortening of bookmaker in the wagering sense.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) [syn: bookmaker ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the bookie was already out hiring frighteners and the bet had to stand. ▪ His bookie gave him two months to pay. ▪ I couldn't believe the bookies were giving 9/1 for Leeds to win the whole thing on Sat. morning. ▪ Ira Sanchez ...
Usage examples of bookie.
How much did you lay out upon bets with Bob the Bookie this morning, Jim?
And Old Pete and Councillor Doveston and Bob the Bookie and Norman and Archroy looked on in horror as Neville stepped between his new bar staff and smacked each of them on the bottom.
I can squeeze out of Bob the Bookie, but it will be fun trying for as long as it lasts.
Tell me, do you think Lola will be going to the Bookie awards next week?
I was not a bookie and had never been near Lanerick, but he refused to be convinced.
Like if a street bookie had a real heavy play on a horse or a football team, he could lay off some of his bets with Bobby.
Gordy, who was large enough and solid enough to give Mount Rushmore some competition, sat on a crate looking at another man I vaguely knew from my time in the bookie joints.
I suppose I could question every bookie in town that she had contact with.
The name of the bookie shop next door to the Dolphin comes after that, then Murphy follows, then some Muldoon fellow in Belfast.
Driver left a packet of matches on the bar that advertises a bookie shop in Dun Laoghaire.
In that time, they continued to do odd jobs for King Benny, took in some numbers action for an Inwood bookie and occasionally strong-armed players late on loan shark payments.
Fat Mancho, played stickball in front of his candy store and helped his bookie operation rake in thousands a week, their powerful support insuring that no one dared back down from a phone-in bet.
Her father was out in the back painting the kennel that one of his pals from the bookies had made for Hooves.
I got up and walked to a curtained-off area where several bookies were taking bets.
If I expected to score by betting on fighters and football teams that had been doped with ZAP, I needed Bobby because he knew bookies all over , the country and could cobble up a giant swindle.