0 informal for bookmaker
1 a person whose business is accepting and paying out money risked on a particular result of something, esp. horse races
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.
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