Crossword clues for odds-on
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
odds-on
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
favorite
▪ Personally, I was excited at the prospect of participating in a real blood-and-guts battle against a prohibitive odds-on favorite.
▪ The media regarded Gorbachev as the odds-on favorite to dethrone the old champ.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Schuey was in top form and the triple world beater always looked odds-on to score his fifth win on the trot.
▪ Laing built the original centre 10 years ago and is odds-on to carry out the work if the scheme gets the nod.
▪ Personally, I was excited at the prospect of participating in a real blood-and-guts battle against a prohibitive odds-on favorite.
▪ The media regarded Gorbachev as the odds-on favorite to dethrone the old champ.
Wiktionary
odds-on
a. 1 Having a chance of winning that is better than even 2 In which the amount won on a bet is less than the amount staked
WordNet
odds-on
adj. having a better than even chance of success; "the odds-on favorite"
Usage examples of "odds-on".
I pick a flyer at random in the fifth race, San-xiang deliberates before picking the odds-on favorite.
With a ten-to-twenty-knot edge they're an odds-on favorite to win at blindman's buff.
It looked like an odds-on shot that in about another two ticks he would be giving her the Collect for the Day to write out ten times or even instructing her to bend over while he fetched his whangee.