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

A star running back, Reggie was banned from football 20 years earlier after he mixed up two phone numbers and called into a sports show thinking he was talking to his bookie.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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

Speculation ran rampant Thursday on sports talk radio and social media about what actually happened and whether Ohtani had known about the payments to the bookie.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

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