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moneyline

moneyline

6 7.6
A bet on which team or player will win a game, with odds showing the favorite
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌniˌlaɪn/
  • Jargon
: línea de dinero
  • In sports betting, you can choose the moneyline to simply bet on which team will win.

Examples

  • Bill Simmons has a line of -4.5 on the game, so I made up a moneyline of -250/+195 for Monday.

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  • Update: The Monday Night game has numbers of a -3.5 spread, -185/+175 moneyline, and 35-point over/under.

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  • Here are the moneyline picks.

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  • But a Seattle touchdown swung that, and the moneyline, and perhaps even more than the integrity of the sport, this morning is about figuring out just how much money changed hands.

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  • And the day was advertised on a half-minute spot on CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline (the only network and program that would accept it) on November 26, 2002.

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  • The odds for the moneyline indicate that the home team is favored to win the match.

  • Many fans prefer to bet on the moneyline instead of using point spreads to determine the winner.

Surface Forms

moneyline singular
moneylines plural

Morphology

moneyline = money + line (semi-transparent) = money + line

Formally a compound of 'money' + 'line', but the specialised betting sense ('odds with no point spread') is jargon and not directly inferable by an average learner.

Etymology

Moneyline is made from money ('cash') and line ('a single set of odds'). Think of it as the betting 'line' that shows how much cash you might win or lose when you pick the game's winner, so a moneyline bet is simply choosing the winner without a point spread.