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handbook noun a bookmaker who operates on the street, without the benefit of a fixed office US, 1973- Capone had said his income was only $75 a week, his one-sixth share in the profits of one place alone, the Hawthorne Smoke Shop (a hand-book). — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 134, 1954
- Like all handbooks though, he was scared of plain-clothes vice-cops but completely ignored uniformed policemen. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 47, 1973
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