What is "bookmaking"

Usage examples of "bookmaking".

From Bert Huggerneck's description of the killing-off of one small bookmaking business it was probable Ganser Mays had as much professional honour as an octopus.

Bert's mum, Owen's daughter and Charlie's wife went off to plunder the Tote, and I, with the most reputable bookmaking firm in the business, bet five hundred pounds to three thousand that Energise would win.

He frowned over the more obvious inconsistencies put forward by mother and son, but seemed struck to consternation when I said, 'Didn't you tell me that the bookmaking firm of Arthur Robins, established 1894, was now owned and run by people named Webber, Brown… and Verity?

Other streets were sporadically dotted with pins marking suspected bookmaking locations: cashrooms in the southerly black neighborhoods, phone spots in the northerly white neighborhoods.

I wish I could just let you work fun things like gambling and call girls and bookmaking back offices and fancy bars with good drinks, but that usually ain't what we gotta do.

Carlo Rizzi, the son-in-law, had offered his services but had been told to take care of his own business that Don Corleone had set him up in, a lucrative bookmaking territory in the Italian section of Manhattan.

Don Corleone set up a system of tribute, allowing all incumbents to remain in their bookmaking and policy number spots.

He had men assigned to Carlo Rizzi’s bookmaking operation who would report to Hagen everything Rizzi did on the job.

The Corleone Family was finally forced to close down some of its most profitable bookmaking stations, including the book given to son-in-law Carlo Rizzi for his living.

He was a “special” and as such commanded a high salary but did not have his own living, a bookmaking or strong-arm operation.

There's been a bunch of it found at collateral crime scenes lately: narcotics, bookmaking and prostitution collars.

Whalen does not attack the diminutized Kingdom Cohen--he simply builds up a rival, strictly bookmaking kingdom with no fear of reprisals.

The Mick also ran bookmaking, loansharking, gambling, prostitution and dope rackets and killed an average of a dozen people a year.

Bert’s mum, Owen’s daughter, and Charlie’s wife went off to plunder the Tote, and I, with the most reputable bookmaking firm in the business, bet five hundred pounds to three thousand that Energise would win.

I asked him if he would ring up a powerful bookmaking friend of his and ask him the pr 'He says Charlie Boston has been trying to lay off about fifty thousand on Tiddely Pom since yesterday afternoon.