Synonyms for bookie

Grammar : Noun

Spell : boo k-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʊk i

Top 10 synonyms for bookie

Other synonyms for the word bookie

Définition of bookie

Origin : 1885, colloquial shortening of bookmaker in the wagering sense.

As in gambler : noun gamester
As in gamester : noun bettor

Example sentences :

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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