bookie
noun/ˈbʊki/
Etymology
Definitions
A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on…
A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
- ‘You won’t believe it,’ he [Fitz McGee] said. ‘Those dummies won’t let me scratch! The horse is gonna be odds‐on and I’ve got a chunk bet on him out of town. Never get the bookie call it off this late.’
Diminutive of book.
- […] although I had not felt the power of the truth on my own heart, yet I took particular care to read all the little bookies before I put them into the hands of the children.
- Gems, Jewels, Happy Stories for Boys, and Happy Stories for Girls, are the names of four attractive packets filled with those nice little bookies which are so much liked by young people.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bookie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA