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bookie

/book-ee/US // ˈbʊk i //UK // (ˈbʊkɪ) //

赌徒,赌客,赌注,庄家

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : bookmaker.

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Examples

  • Phil Mickelson said Thursday that he probably will not return to a PGA Tour event being held in Detroit because of a local newspaper article this week that linked him to a bookie reputed to have ties with the mafia.

  • His father and namesake, “Cowboy” Hayes, had been the biggest bookie in town.

  • I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie, and he paid me in notes.

  • There, faintly legible on the back in pencil, was the hieroglyph that the bookie had scrawled on it.

  • Almost the last thing that you expect in a starting-price bookie is a strong penchant for poetry.

  • This man had introduced them to each other carelessly, and hurried away to "square things up with his bookie."

  • The bookie looked just once at me, and I'll never forget how his eyebrows went together.