A clearing house is kind of like a bookie that takes bets, but doesn't set odds.
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Under the skin of an aging bookie pulsed the heart of a kid swept away by love.
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As a bookie, he cultivated the country-club set around Detroit and Miami Beach.
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Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU in the Damon Runyon tale.
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That's where he'd shot a produce broker whose family ran competing bookie joints.
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LoCoco, a reputed mob bookie who married into the Roti family, retired in 2002.
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Instead of betting against a bookie, with Smarkets you bet against other members.
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Should the ghetto resident get the corner bookie to vouch that he pays his bills?
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Are the Busicks alerting a bookie to their late-starting favorites at Pimlico?
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Bookmaker: a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or a person that takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed upon odds.
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A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar
In sports wagering a person who accepts bets.
(U.K.) Short for bookmaker. The person or shop who accepts bets.
A person or organization that sets the lines and books the bets in sports.
Person who takes bets from the clients.
Very similar to the terms book or bookmaker, a bookie is the individual or company accepting and rewarding bets.