bookie in the PONS Dictionary

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It has bookies and the track for the 120m is on a slight decline.
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He calls the bookie to place the bet, and the bookie says he will think about taking it.
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Jimmy was a small-time bookie who had a reputation for never writing anything down.
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Gambling on the horse races can be done both with bookies and the tote, available at multiple locations inside the grandstand.
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So for these gamblers, the losers pay negative vigorish, while the winners pay more than the full vigorish raked in by the bookie.
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Despite the existence of legal alternatives, some gamblers still prefer to play with a bookie for a number of reasons.
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This race created so much interest that the local bookie took bets on which cane farmer was right.
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The bookie says that because they sabotaged the race his dog was in, which had a prize of 50,000, that they owed him that amount.
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The race meetings attracted huge crowds of racegoers, bookies and other notorious characters.
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Later in the novel, it was shown that he also has a second occupation as a bookie.
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