bookie Значение & определение

Примери за bookie

• This book puts forth a daring argument : the animal game's significance lies not in the bicheiros (bookies) but in the bichos (animals).

• A bystander, perhaps a bookie, takes the helpless man's money, as other onlookers jeer.

• We can assess our bookies and do something about controlling their misdemeanours.

• On factory floors there are illegal bookies who thrive.

• Up to 1961 the bookies paid not a penny to keep horse racing going.

• You might just as well call together a committee of bookies and jockeys to abolish horse-racing.

• The punters cannot be blamed for that because they, cheerfully or otherwise, contribute about £1 billion a year to the bookies in lost bets.

• However, if one bets with the unofficial, illegal bookie on the shop floor, generally the limits are very much lower.