Bookies [noun]
Definition of Bookies:
gamester
Opposite/Antonyms of Bookies:
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Sentence/Example of Bookies:
His father and namesake, “Cowboy” Hayes, had been the biggest bookie in town.
I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie, and he paid me in notes.
There, faintly legible on the back in pencil, was the hieroglyph that the bookie had scrawled on it.
Almost the last thing that you expect in a starting-price bookie is a strong penchant for poetry.
This man had introduced them to each other carelessly, and hurried away to "square things up with his bookie."
The bookie looked just once at me, and I'll never forget how his eyebrows went together.
This makes you an 'Investment Counselor, short-term transactions only,' and removes from you the odious nomenclature of 'Bookie.'
That single afternoon would thus bring me in five hundred thousand pounds—provided the bookie did not blow his brains out.
The Boss hadn't a word left in him, but I wouldn't have met him in the ring about then for anything less'n a bookie's bundle.
Then they set sail after the poor bookie, and caught him about seven or eight miles away.