Bookie

Quick meaning: Bookie is a noun meaning (informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (rare) Diminutive of book.

Example Sentences

Little Miss Muffet / Sat on a tuffet / Not eating curds and whey. / Instead, she ate cookies / And read little bookies / She saw advertised yesterday.

[…] although I had not felt the power of the truth on my own heart, yet I took particular care to read all the little bookies before I put them into the hands of the children.

This year, the five finalists were all females living in New York City who had published precious little bookies they called novels—or were they hybrid short-story amalgamations?

Gems, Jewels, Happy Stories for Boys, and Happy Stories for Girls, are the names of four attractive packets filled with those nice little bookies which are so much liked by young people.

Word Forms

• bookies

Synonyms for bookie

Depending on context, synonyms include bookmaker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bookmaker, creditor, book, chirr, penciler, bettor.

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