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

Would Maniscalco be game to portray a Los Angeles bookie adjusting his business plan as the legalization of sports gambling looms?

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 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