What is "betting shops"

Usage examples of "betting shops".

He used to like driving round the country, so he'd take Liam's cash and drive off to some town or other, and put it all on in the local betting shops, bit by bit, and if the horse won, which it usually did, he'd go round and collect, and come home.

Nothing fancy, just a couple of betting shops in Windsor and Staines, see.

Got some betting shops, hasn't he, in Birmingham and Wolverhampton and such like.

The firm had become a vast concern, with hundreds of betting shops throughout the country, but its headquarters were still in the East End.

The woman doesn't beg regularly or she'd have learned to keep clear of betting shops, because betting shops attract crooks and crooks bring cops.

It was well known that bookmakers and Runners despised each other, as the authorities were often wont to sift through the betting shops in search of criminals.

It had just snowed, bringing down the odds for a White Christmas at Ladbrokes Betting shops to three to one, and I was damned happy to have a warm building outside and a cup of cheer inside.

Its steel bones, its stranded tendons, were lost within an accretion of dreams: tattoo parlors, gaming arcades, dimly lit stalls stacked with decaying magazines, sellers of fireworks, of cut bait, betting shops, sushi bars, unlicensed pawnbrokers, herbalists, barbers, bars.

He gambled successfully, worked as a private handicapper for several small stables, and opened his own book when betting shops became legal.