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horseplayer

noun

Etymology

From horse + player.

  1. inherited from *plegārī✻
  2. inherited from pleġere — “player, athlete, wrestler”
  3. inherited from pleyer
  4. compounded as horseplayer — “horse + player”

Definitions

  1. A person who bets on horse races.

    • Trailing a field of talented horseplayers that day, he made a few shrewd picks to move ahead, then held on down the stretch to earn $50,000.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA