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sportsbook

noun

Etymology

From sports + book.

  1. inherited from *bōks✻
  2. inherited from *bōk✻
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as sportsbook — “sports + book”

Definitions

  1. A place where a gambler can bet on various sports competitions

    A place where a gambler can bet on various sports competitions; the company that runs it; the website that is its online presence. (Most such companies offer online betting, subject to geofencing by state.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sportsbook. 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