Examples from the web for bookie
- Exchanges allow people to bet with each other, rather than going through a licensed bookie or a parimutuel pool.
- Customers can pay a bill, book a hotel room or place a bet without walking to the bank, travel agent or bookie.
- Once again she meets the footman, who has now become a successful bookie.
- He has rescued a stranger from an alley beating only to find the grateful bookie plying him with tips that pyramid into a fortune.
- If the bet was placed with a bookie or made in any other illegal way you have no legal recourse.
- According to a former bookie who appeared on the show, illegal sports wagering exists on nearly every college campus.
British Dictionary definitions for bookie
Word Origin and History for bookie
n. 1885, colloquial shortening of bookmaker in the wagering sense.
Slang definitions & phrases for bookie
bookie
noun A person who accepts and handles bets on horse races; bookmaker (1880s+ Gambling)