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Synonyms for bookie
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : boo k-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʊk i |
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Définition of bookie
Origin :- 1885, colloquial shortening of bookmaker in the wagering sense.
- As in gambler : noun gamester
- As in gamester : noun bettor
- Does the bookie ask you how much coin you have and if you can afford to lose it?
- Extract from : « The Garden of Eden » by Max Brand
- Such determination on so young a face the bookie thought he had never seen.
- Extract from : « Boy Woodburn » by Alfred Ollivant
- "Got you, sonny," said the bookie, and bolted with a half-hearted grin.
- Extract from : « Boy Woodburn » by Alfred Ollivant
- Then he returned to the Paddock, passing a bookie with uplifted hand of protest.
- Extract from : « Boy Woodburn » by Alfred Ollivant
- "He's a powerful great horse, Mr. Woodburn," smiled the bookie.
- Extract from : « Boy Woodburn » by Alfred Ollivant
- For instance, have you ever heard of Percy Pook, the bookie?
- Extract from : « A Man of Means » by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
- That single afternoon would thus bring me in five hundred thousand pounds—provided the bookie did not blow his brains out.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
- The bookie looked just once at me, and I'll never forget how his eyebrows went together.
- Extract from : « The Garden of Eden » by Max Brand
- This makes you an 'Investment Counselor, short-term transactions only,' and removes from you the odious nomenclature of 'Bookie.'
- Extract from : « The Big Fix » by George Oliver Smith
- Then I take my savings from the bank and pawn my clothes, and much money goes to the bookie to back Mutton Chop.
- Extract from : « Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 148, January 6th, 1915 » by Various
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