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How to pronounce parlay in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms double up
Type of back, bet on, gage, game, punt, stake
Type Words
Type of bet, wager

Examples of parlay

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Parlay Social bills itself, to my mind unconvincingly, as a Prohibition-era bar.
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Your vision will have an impact that will parlay you into the life of the party.
From the suntimes.com
The tricky part usually is to parlay that enhanced ability into another chance.
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The crux of the suit is that Delaware only offered parlay betting on NFL games.
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It is trying to parlay its dominance of PCs into a slice of the handset market.
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Meanwhile, Seth and Evan gamely try to parlay a traffic accident into hard booze.
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The small changes that she makes today can parlay into a major change tomorrow.
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He was counting on big year to parlay into a big, free agent contract next winter.
From the washingtontimes.com
In a traditional three-team parlay, when one team loses, you lose your entire bet.
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More examples
  • Stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager
  • 'Parlay/OSA' is an open API for the telephone network. It is developed by The Parlay Group, which works closely with ETSI and 3GPP, which all co-publish it. Within 3GPP, Parlay is part of Open Services Architecture.
  • A parlay or accumulator is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers and is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. ...
  • (Parlays) A betting term in which you must pick the winner of more then 1 game, if any of your picks lose then you lose. The advantage in parlay betting is that you risk less money for a higher payout. The disadvantage of a parlay bet is that you must be right on every game chosen.
  • A bet with two or more teams where all the teams must win for the bettor to be successful
  • A parlay is a bet involving two or more events. You can also use the word as a verb; to parlay is to use the proceeds from one bet as the wager on another bet. You can parlay sides and totals. You can mix sports in a single parlay. All you teams must win for your parlay to win. ...
  • A bet on two or more teams or outcomes where the original stake and winnings are reinvested on the next wager. All selections must be correct for the parlay to win. In the event of a push or a game cancellation, the parlay reverts to the next lower number (e.g. ...
  • A multi-race bet in which winnings are subsequently bet on each succeeding race.
  • (Also, Accumulator) A multiple bet. A kind of 'let-it-ride' bet. Making simultaneous selections on two or more games with the intent of pressing the winnings of the first win on the bet of the following game selected, and so on. All the selections made must win for you to win the parlay.