Definition of betting shop
British
: a shop where bets are taken
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FOBTs are the primary source of income for betting shops, generating £1.8bn a year.
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Two days later, another teenager and a burglary suspect were fatally stabbed and a man was beaten to death in what appeared to have been a late-night brawl outside a betting shop.
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Of those areas with more than 30 betting shops, more than three-quarters have above-average rates of child poverty.
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First Known Use of betting shop
1832
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