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/ˈbʊki/
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[ UK /bˈʊki/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊki/ ]
NOUN
- a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
How To Use bookie In A Sentence
- The place was heaving and, as the floorman for a minor boards bookie, the pulsating activity proved exhilarating. The Sun
- The loud checks of his ample suit made the bookies appear attired for a funeral.
- Doubtless, the bookies will be rubbing their hands with glee no matter what lands the big prize.
- In effect, the bookies would face a levy on profits to help those who are damaged by betting.
- The bookies were offering odds of 3 to 1, but there were no takers.
- Betting on the result is likely to make the bookies a mint this year.
- And there are probably a bunch more bars that have a pretty much resident bookie. REVELATIONS
- But, of all the alleged verities, putting faith in a trainer's predictions for a chinny fighter whom bookies rate a 9-2 underdog against a 1-8 counter-punching genius is as perilous a challenge to logic and the fates as exists in sport. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
- The bookies were offering odds of 3 to 1, but there were no takers.
- Odds like that are the shortest for 20 years and bookies face a six-figure payout.