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Definition of Bookie
1. Noun. A gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races).
Definition of Bookie
1. Noun. A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookie
1. a bet taker [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookie
Literary usage of Bookie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"Hernandez, in a Soft voice, and with eyes that gazed dreamily over the water,
began the story of THE COURTING OF BROTHER RABBIT AND BROTHER bookie, ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1902)
"It was just after flag-fall when this happened, and the bookie hurriedly took
the note ... Whirling past in a furious gust, it caught the note as the bookie ..."
3. Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1918)
"Dere was two men name Brer Rabbit, an' Brer bookie an' de king say whichever one
fin' de ... Brer bookie jump on de horse an' went to where de girl was. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1830)
"A bookie, with ten stones set in the same. ... A bookie, with stones in is, sad
three are out—An Agnes Dei, ..."
5. Calendar of the Quarter Sessions Papers by John William Willis Bund (1900)
"Magdalen bookie wife of Thomas bookie. Joyce Lane wife of [Humphrey] Lane, were
indicted for not having for six months last past before the yth October in ..."
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