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horse room noun an illegal betting operation where bets can be placed and collected on horse races US- Northside shopping street, with usual quota of horse rooms, taverens, and dope peddlers at principal corners. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 289, 1950
- — Life, p. 39, 19 May 1952
- A week from now half the horse rooms in Brooklyn, for example, will be out of bussiness and the people will be held on high bail. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 216, 1982
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