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horseplayer

horseplayer noun: a person who bets on horse races.

Noun

horseplayer (plural horseplayers)

  1. A person who bets on horse races.
    • Trailing a field of talented horseplayers that day, he made a few shrewd picks to move ahead, then held on down the stretch to earn $50,000.2007 July 1, Vincent M. Mallozzi, “Handicapping the Handicappers”, in New York Times

Forms of horseplayer

pluralhorseplayers

Origin of horseplayer

From horse + player.

Questions about horseplayer

What does horseplayer mean?
Horseplayer means a person who bets on horse races.
What part of speech is horseplayer?
Horseplayer is a noun.
What is the plural of horseplayer?
The plural of horseplayer is horseplayers.

Words near horseplayer in the dictionary

  1. horsepeople
  2. horseperson
  3. horsepersons
  4. horseplay
  5. horseplayed
  6. horseplayer
  7. horseplayers
  8. horseplayful
  9. horseplaying
  10. horseplays
  11. horsepond

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horseplayer (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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