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bookie
noun
a bookmaker UK, 1885
Sometimes spelt “booky”.- He spotted the young Duke of Salamanca drawing stacks of white from the bookies[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 174, 1956
- The Pope is the world’s biggest bookie. Makes people bet on their own salvation. — The Bad Lieutenant, 1992
- [H]e just hung around with a bunch of fellow deadbeats doing the pub, bookie’s, Spar [a grocery store] shuffle. — John Williams, Cardiff Dead, p. 78, 2000
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