bookie

Example Sentences

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On Super Bowl Sunday, bookies would let their customers predict whether a running back would finish under or over a certain yardage total.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I tried everything - apps, local bookies, international platforms. I was hooked," he says.

From BBC

With the Proteas recommencing their first innings on the fifth day Cronje - prompted by a bookie named Marlon Aronstam - contrived an unprecedented innings forfeiture for both sides to ensure a result.

From BBC

The bookies certainly think so - and they are not alone.

From BBC

Of course, Itoje and his players will discount all of the talk of bookies odds and Lions invincibility.

From BBC