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turf accountant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Perhaps one is safer being a turf accountant than a chartered accountant in this day and age.
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turf accountant

n. A bookmaker (gambling)

Usage examples of "turf accountant".

I left nine pounds fifty in the fruit machine and seventy-five quid in the turf accountant's next door.

Randolph also had a faraway look, but this was directed to the turf accountant's in the market-town of Selby.

Still, the whole thing provided, as I say, food for thought, and I was in what is called a reverie as I made my way to the house, a reverie so profound that no turf accountant would have given any but the shortest odds against my sooner or later bumping into something.