Definition of bookie
: bookmaker 2
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Examples of bookie in a Sentence
Their bookie is giving good odds.
Recent Examples of bookie from the Web
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Life has a way of getting in the way of, if not dictating, a bookie’s business.
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Soon the squeaky-clean football hero who had been a National Merit Scholar was meeting bookies in alleys and paying players to fix the scores of games.
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Once the kinks are worked out, Vic and Robins agreed, back-alley bookies will largely wither and die.
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In the end, Prince Harry wore what the experts, bookies, and prognosticators expected: a military uniform.
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Luckily, British bookies, who will take bets on nearly anything, are here to help fill that void.
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Meanwhile, as with everything related to the royal wedding, bookies have begun taking bets on who will walk Megahn down the aisle.
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And personal bookies everywhere (sorry, Vinnie down at the bar) whose illicit occupation faces sudden extinction.
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Both Ebby and her parents’ beloved valet, Leo, turn out to have committed murder; and her brother Potsie isn’t just a gambler with a candy addiction, but a bookie who runs in a sleazy circle that includes their miscreant cousin Perry.
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Origin and Etymology of bookie
by shortening & alteration
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