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How to use bookie in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Bookie means a bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar. Example: “The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie.”

Examples of bookie by meaning

nounA bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.

  • Never get the bookie call it off this late.’1975 September 5, Red Smith, quoting Phil Bieber, “Lyin’ Fitz, the Beautiful Dreamer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

More sentences with bookie

  • The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie.2016, Mark Andersch, By an Addict, for an Addict, →ISBN. From the entry vig
  • Leaving Lady Margaret to do battle with the bookies, I bought myself a country-baked vanilla slice.2012, June Whyte, Muzzled: A Kat Mckinley Greyhound Mystery, Untreed Reads, unnumbered page. From the entry vanilla slice
  • Everyone knows that feeling of walking into a room and the atmosphere being bare bookie but also calm.2017 March 25, Trudy Barry, “1st Listen Review: Section Boyz' 'Soundcheck' mixtape”, in GRM Daily, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023. From the entry booky
  • Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press…. From the entry street
  • It was Robeson who introduced me to the other blacks in New York, the Show Boat cast, the hangers-on, girlfriends, spivs, and bookies.1978, Paul Theroux, Picture Palace, page 92. From the entry spiv
  • Yet there is no end to the black mists that becloud horse racing, fixers, illegal bookies, and public nuisances created by horse racing.1976, Japan Quarterly, volume 23, page 225. From the entry black mist
  • Tommy remembered Uncle Johnny standing up from his chair in the snug and settling his titfer on his head, what made him look as if he were a bookie.2016, Alan Moore, “Hark! The Glad Sound!”, in Jerusalem: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry titfer
  • Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.1967, William Surface, Inside Internal Revenue. From the entry cheese box
  • The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102. From the entry scalp

Meaning of bookie

  1. noun A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.

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Questions about bookie in a sentence

How do you use bookie in a sentence?
Bookie is used as a noun. For example: “The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie.”
What is a short sentence with bookie?
“Never get the bookie call it off this late.’”
What does bookie mean?
Bookie means a bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookie (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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