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get-out bet

get-out bet noun: a last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.

Noun

get-out bet (plural get-out bets)

  1. A last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.
    • Back on the road and it's destination Surfers Paradise via every available TAB including Casino, Mooball, Tweed Heads and worse still, Gibbsy's get out bet at Ouyen trots blew a tyre when it was six metres in front and 80 meters to go and ran fifth.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 110

Forms of get-out bet

pluralget-out bets

Questions about get-out bet

What does get-out bet mean?
Get-out bet means a last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.
What part of speech is get-out bet?
Get-out bet is a noun.
What is the plural of get-out bet?
The plural of get-out bet is get-out bets.

Words near get-out bet in the dictionary

  1. get-ins
  2. get-nothing
  3. get-nothings
  4. get-off-my-lawn
  5. get-out
  6. get-out bet
  7. get-out bets
  8. get-out clause
  9. get-out clauses
  10. get-out-of-jail-free card
  11. get-out-of-jail-free cards

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