bookie

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Later on, he became close friends with Frank Sinatra, who called him Bennett the Bookie and named a guesthouse for him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Those transfers are on top of key Husky players with remaining eligibility who are leaving for the draft: Bookie Radley-Hiles, Trent McDuffie, Cade Otton and Jaxson Kirkland.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2022

Coulson also worked as a camera assistant on the likes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2015

Coulson worked as as a camera assistant on The Killing of the Chinese Bookie, a second assistant camera on Youngblood, a first assistant camera on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

From Time • Sep. 29, 2015

“You do know you’ll always be Bookie, right?”

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas