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

I didn’t quite believe Ohtani recently when he said he knew nothing about an alleged $4.5 million in wire transfers to an illegal bookie.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 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

"There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler . . . he's a bookie."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin