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bet a dollar to a donut

bet a dollar to a donut is the alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.

Meaning of bet a dollar to a doughnut

Verb

bet a dollar to a doughnut (third-person singular simple present bets a dollar to a doughnut, present participle betting a dollar to a doughnut, simple past and past participle bet a dollar to a doughnut)

  1. (figuratively, humorous, mildly) To declare with confidence.
    • I bet a dollar to a doughnut that fellow Lopez sold us out.1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 19, in Captain Scraggs

Forms of bet a dollar to a donut

third-person singular presentbets a dollar to a donut
present participlebetting a dollar to a donut
past participlebet a dollar to a donut
pastbet a dollar to a donut

Questions about bet a dollar to a donut

What is bet a dollar to a donut the alternative form of?
Bet a dollar to a donut is the alternative form of bet a dollar to a doughnut.

Words near bet a dollar to a donut in the dictionary

  1. besylic
  2. Besòs
  3. bet
  4. bet a dime to a dollar
  5. bet a dollar to a dime
  6. bet a dollar to a donut
  7. bet a dollar to a doughnut
  8. Bet Bet
  9. bet din
  10. bet dollars to donuts
  11. bet dollars to doughnuts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bet a dollar to a donut (page history and authors); bet a dollar to a doughnut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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