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Definition of Bookies
1. bookie [n] - See also: bookie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookies
Literary usage of Bookies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Full Up and Fed Up: The Worker's Mind in Crowded Britain by Whiting Williams (1921)
"Nearly two score "bookies" are displaying their wager-boards and shouting: ...
Down surges the crowd in glee while, with impassive faces, the bookies hand ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1893)
"Short has told the bookies he's sure to win; what chance has a soldier against
such an experienced racing man as he is, he says ; evidently the bookies ..."
3. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"He nodded to the men waiting for him over by the bookies, and slipped them the
money in a single quick movement. They all set off at once, slipping their ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Past Epsom's Spring, again we try Our luck with bookies and with horses On yet
another field, where lie The mysteries of the Guineas' courses. ..."
5. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century by Henry Grey Graham, ( (1908)
"tbj good lady said, " that's a book ye may weel be proud o'; bul before you dee,
you should burn a' your wee bookies.' Raising himself in bed, ..."
6. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence: A Manual for Reporters by Grant Milnor Hyde (1916)
"Gideon said that the little he knew of the doings of the "Mets" was from conversation
with the bookies. Etc., etc.— New York Evening Post. ..."
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