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Examples of bookie in a Sentence
Their bookie is giving good odds.
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Las Vegas is betting against them and the bookies are hardly alone.
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His job was to watch the satellite links and the $30,000 machine that taped every call to the bookie's round-the-clock reps.
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Origin and Etymology of bookie
by shortening & alteration
First Known Use: 1877
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