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linemaker

linemaker noun: an employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.

Noun

linemaker (plural linemakers)

  1. An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
    • Mike Battaglia, who is the public handicapper for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the linemaker for Churchill Downs and an analyst on NBC’s Kentucky Derby telecasts, described his own recent record in the Derby this way: “Bad. Just bad.”2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times

Forms of linemaker

plurallinemakers

Origin of linemaker

From line + maker.

Questions about linemaker

What does linemaker mean?
Linemaker means an employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
What part of speech is linemaker?
Linemaker is a noun.
What is the plural of linemaker?
The plural of linemaker is linemakers.

Words near linemaker in the dictionary

  1. linelessness
  2. linelet
  3. linelets
  4. linelike
  5. linels
  6. linemaker
  7. linemakers
  8. lineman
  9. lineman splice
  10. lineman splices
  11. lineman's pliers

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