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linemakers

linemakers is the plural of linemaker.

Meaning of linemaker

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

Questions about linemakers

What is linemakers the plural of?
Linemakers is the plural of linemaker.

Words near linemakers in the dictionary

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

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