Crossword-Solution: BOOKIES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Bet men. | 1 answer |
| Much-investigated gentlemen of the day. | 1 answer |
| Spread managers | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOOKIES (5)
Blinky Bill had a half-share in all the bookies' winnings, so he chuckled grimly as he went to the rails to watch the race.
And what is this that flashes to the front, while the howls of the bookies rise like the yelping of fiends in torment? It is Dodger Smith on Tin Can, and from the grandstand there is a shrill feminine yell of triumph as the gallant pony sails past the post.
Sure didn't I bate the bookies blind on Rosebud but yesterday--or was it the day before? I don't know, but come on, me lads, and we'll do him again.' “He turned in at a little narrer entry-like, and went stumblin' up a flight of dirty stairs.
Crooked as Doyers Street, they said; throwing every race; standing in with his owner to trim the bookies, and they couldn't stand for that.
Nor that track fortunes are only made by bookies or exceptionally wealthy or brainy owners; that a plunger comes out on top once in a million times.
Quotes with BOOKIES (2)
If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.
Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, Fan Duel and Draft Kings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1950–2004).