What is "betting parlor"

Usage examples of "betting parlor".

So here they were now in the betting parlor Hamilton had called “.

Shivvey Coker was fixing up a job for him somewhere in Florida, muscle at a betting parlor.

A combination lounge and betting parlor hat had been converted from an old Podracer owner's booth, it clean but austere, with a bar and several betting windows in the rear.

Dolph didn't stop us, tell us this was a crime scene, not a betting parlor.

They parted that day without speaking, and he spent the evening at the betting parlor, losing money.

The speculative medium he chose was a kind of betting parlor, common in Boston as in other cities, called a bucket shop.

She led him further down the street, in the direction the girl had fled, then opened a door sandwiched in between a boarded-up storefront that had once sold groceries and what looked like a combination self-service laundrey and betting parlor, judging by the number of frowsy, bitter-faced women playing cards and the even greater number of men rolling dice while the machines jigged and bumped and rattled their syncopated rhythm, cleaning what few clothes these people owned.

It was a meeting place, a club, a place where business deals were made, a betting parlor, and an exchange for information.

Next to it was a small newsstand, and what looked like a betting parlor beside that betting was legal in the state of New Jersey, an important source of revenue.

There was a drug den, a betting parlor, a bar, another drug den, a pornographic stage show, a whorehouse for men, a whorehouse for women, a whorehouse for aliens, and a whorehouse for those desiring that most taboo of vices—.

Is soon as he was out of the building he paused before the window of a betting parlor to lift his commset to his lips and make his call.