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betting odds

n. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one" [syn: odds]

Usage examples of "betting odds".

And three out of four constituted betting odds, so long as your own ass wasn't on the line.

That is the only hand he would have been justified in backing at the betting odds of two to one.

People threw themselves out of the horses' way, shouting threats or encouragement, or just the latest official betting odds on their getting out of the city alive.

But Pfyfe's got his sentimental side, and he'd plunge on a pair of deuces with all the betting odds against him.

He had little acquaintance with literature or history, and his mathematical abilities were limited to matters of money and betting odds.