quaddie bet
- noun
- Australian
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apuesta quaddie
- He placed a quaddie bet on the last four races of the day.
Examples
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Many racegoers try a quaddie bet in hopes of a huge return from a small stake.
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She explained how a quaddie bet can lead to big payouts if all selections win.
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I placed a quaddie bet on the last four races.
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Have you ever won a quaddie bet?
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Many racegoers try a quaddie bet in hopes of a huge return from a small stake.
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He placed a quaddie bet on the last four races of the day.
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She explained how a quaddie bet can lead to big payouts if all selections win.
Synonyms
665
1.4
Money that you risk on the result of an event
Surface Forms
Morphology
quaddie + bet
The noun 'bet' is transparent, but the key element 'quaddie' is specialized horse-racing jargon (not a productive, compositional English morpheme) and its meaning ('a wager on four races') is not derivable from the parts by an average B1 learner. Because the informative lexical piece is an opaque, rare term rather than a predictable combination (and is not cross-linguistically obvious), the overall phrase would be unintelligible without prior exposure.
Etymology
The noun quaddie bet comes from quad (short for 'four') and bet, giving the image of one ticket with four boxes to fill. If you pick the 'winners' in all four races you can win a lot, so the term means a bet on the winners of four races.