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n. (context Australia gambling horse racing colloquial English) A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.
Usage examples of "quaddie".
A quaddie and a downsider were just collaborating on raising a new, possibly more plasma-fire-resistant, window into place in its frame.
Four worksuited quaddies each manned a laser unit braced around the walls, bracketing the titanium mass.
It did rather put paid to Vorpatril's paranoid fear that Corbeau had turned traitor, volunteering for this as a way to get a free ride out of his quaddie detention cell and his dilemmas.
From this initial point, quaddie groups had leapfrogged out to build daughter colonies in both directions along the inner of the two rings of asteroids that had made this system so attractive to their ancestors.
Alas, the quaddies were all too conscientious in their inventory control.
It would not have done for Miles's precious sample to be shot out of space by some quaddie militia guard with a double quota of itchy trigger fingers.
I decided to start with the Idris, and got all the access codes from Brun and Molino all right, but the quaddies wouldn't permit me to board her.
When they all rendezvoused again in their box, he found Garnet Five explaining quaddie naming conventions to Ekaterin.
Music, gardening, and station bio-recycling techniques led to discussion of quaddie population dynamics and the methods—.
Music, gardening, and station bio-recycling techniques led to discussion of quaddie population dynamics and the methods -- technical, economic, and political -- for seeding new habitats in the growing necklace along the asteroid belt.
Venn immediately made sure to point out to Miles all the repairs completed and still in progress, in detail, with approximate costs, with a chronicle appended of all the quaddies who had been injured in the imbroglio, including names, ranks, prognoses, and the distress suffered by their family members.
So that the quaddies may never get the idea that the abnormal is somehow expected of them.
Yei, watching Leo laugh when the young quaddies swarmed around him afterwards, seemed to purr with contentment.
Kline Station has cancelled its construction contract with GalacTech, the first one we were going to send the quaddies out on.
Yei was not usually easy to track down, it being her habit to circulate often among the quaddies, observing behavior, taking notes, making suggestions.