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sheet writer; writer
noun
in an illegal sports betting operation or lottery; a functionary who takes and records bets US- — American Speech, p. 193, October 1949
- Buda was the daughter of a race track sheet-writer, an only child. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 15, 1950
- A “writer” (some 2,000) in Chicago alone comes to your door with his “book.” He takes your bet, writes it up in his book, and gives you a ticket showing what numbers you picked and how much you bet. — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 195, 1954
- A lot of the junkies started sticking up the numbers writers and sticking up the controllers. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 191, 1965
- I think the flat is a check-in station for so called runners or writers who turn in their bet books and cash, less their earned twenty percent. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 97, 1969
- You know I’m out of business. So my sheet writers are closing the books, checking the slow pays, I find out this Warren Ganz was using three different names. — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 16, 1995
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