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tote
noun
in horse racing, a pari-mutuel betting machine AUSTRALIA, 1890
An abbreviation of “totalisator”.- Black Joke was left to race a poor little mare called Cleopatra, and won by a length. I collected two pounds seventeen and sixpence from the tote. — Neville Shute, In the Wet, p. 11, 1953
- Talk about a mob of punters shuffling round a tote window! — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 35, 1966
- — Mel Heimer, Inside Racing, p. 213, 1967
- Crosby gave Frisco the $20 and next day saw him at the racetrack – in the $20 tote queue. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 66, 1975
- With the Horserace Totalisator Board (the full name of the organisation popularly known as the Tote and sometimes still called the Nanny, nanny goat, Tote), the deduction includes contributions to racecourses and the Betting Levy. — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 47, 1991
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