bookie

Example Sentences

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A bookie needs to close the betting window to this fan while keeping it open an optimal bit longer for fans watching on a screen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Being in debt can unquestionably make you less safe even if the threat is a lack of health care or housing, not a bookie.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2024

Federal authorities are investigating the allegations against him as well as Mathew Bowyer, the suspected sports bookie to whom Mizuhara was said to have sent money.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024

I am desperately trying to put bets on with a bookie or call my partner Sarah, who I did not meet until 2013.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2023

Cornell fans rushed up the hill to the town’s principal bookie and demanded, and were paid, their winnings.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown