betting shop

noun

|Updated on: 1 Jun 2018

Definition of betting shop

British

: a shop where bets are taken

Recent Examples of betting shop from the Web

FOBTs are the primary source of income for betting shops, generating £1.8bn a year.

— The Economist, "Business this week," 17 May 2018
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.

— ceylan yeginsu, New York Times, "London Confronts a Spate of Murders, With Most Victims Killed by Knives," 7 Apr. 2018
Of those areas with more than 30 betting shops, more than three-quarters have above-average rates of child poverty.

— The Christian Science Monitor, "A lesson for states that expand gambling," 3 Nov. 2017

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