bookie
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- noun
- /ˈbʊki/
- Informal
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corredor de apuestas
- Goldman was the bookie who put the bets together.
- bet with a bookie
- call a bookie
- pay a bookie
Just going to have a look at what the the bookies odds are saying.
- Just going to have a look at what the the bookies odds are saying.
- And I thought, no, I got arrested for this, for these two bookies about four or five years ago.
- Of course, when that happened to Wally, we just assumed he was trying to hide from his bookie after he bet on the Yankees to win the World Series.
- So yeah, basically what happened was Coral, which, which is just definitely sums up the bookies.
- I mean, I think the bookies didn't really have me as the as the favorite for for a long time.
- She's called up my peoples and got them to robbed the bookies behind my back.
- OK, I need a big old bookie.
- And the ramifications of not paying the bookie, the ramifications are not paying the drug dealer.
- Your winning season and possibly your winning streak begins today only at my bookie back to the program.
- Every play you want to make is waiting at my bookie.
Examples
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We were supposed to meet the bookie, then go out for drinks and catch a show at the Pantages Theatre.
Fiction book (1995) -
The owner of the garage, also the house bookie, stood nearby, holding the cash and taking late bets.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hey, I was in debt to a bookie, and I needed the money.
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I was a bookie, back in New York.
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Possibly, she is telling her bookie what horse she wants in the third.
Blog text (23) -
Join Now and my bookie will double your first deposit.
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The last thing I need is to be friends with my bookie.
Fiction book (1998) -
What we have here, my friends, is a bookie welching on a bet.
Blog text (5) -
I had already called the bookie to reschedule, but he didn't answer his phone.
Fiction book (1995) -
The owner of the garage, also the house bookie, stood nearby, holding the cash and taking late bets.
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Etymology
The word bookie comes from bookmaker, originally someone who keeps a 'book' or written record of people's bets. So a bookie is a person who accepts and pays out bets, often on sports or horse races.