Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet BOOKIES

Definition av BOOKIES

1. böjningsform av bookie

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• Boris arranges for pawnbrokers Vinny and Sol to rob Franky at Brick Top's bookies, while Avi, knowing Franky is a gambling addict, flies to London with his bodyguard Rosebud to pick up the diamond personally.
• The company boss said: 'New Zealand have left all of their opposition so far feeling black and blue and it's inevitable us bookies will be taking a hammering from them on Sunday too, so punters might as well collect now.
• Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a bookmaker/sportsbook, or illegally through privately run enterprises referred to as "bookies".
• Also, unlike state lotteries, bookies could extend credit to the bettors and policy winners could avoid paying income tax.
• Bet back: Action taken by a bookmaker when they are heavily committed to a horse and spreads some of the risk by investing with other bookies or the totalisator.
• He subsequently raised concerns about the safety of Pakistani cricketers in West Indies, claiming Woolmer and Inzamam Ul Haq were getting threats from the bookies without naming his sources.
• Other shops in the Broadway include Glo Tanning and Beauty Salon, two barbers and a hairdressers, a bookies, two take aways (a chip shop and a Chinese).
• demimonde" written by "a pair of right-wing hacks determined to peel back the city's white-frosted veneer to expose a fetid underbelly of Communist sympathizers, Chinese bookies, call girls, Mafiosi, and homosexuals.
• In 2020, crime reporter Scott Burnstein described the organization as: "These days, the Cleveland crime family is a small group of mostly old-timers, bookies and loansharks".
• I was back with my own people, who spoke my language, with my accent - cardplayers, horseplayers, bookies, song-pluggers, agents, actors out of work and actors playing the Palace, Al Jolson with his mob of fans, and Arnold Rothstein with his mob of runners and flunkies.
• He attended King's College School in Wimbledon, where he excelled at maths (according to a moneyweek profile in 2009, not citable due to an entry in Wikipedia's blacklist) and then attended the University of Exeter but was asked to leave during his second year, saying later that he had spent most of his time at the bookies rather than attending lectures.
• Now at racecourses in the South East, one group the Brummies began to prey on were the Jewish bookies from London's East End, who turned to local underworld boss Edward Emmanuel, who in turn recruited the Italian Sabini Gang as protection.
• Cohen's bookies sided with Sica and in an attempt to avoid another gambling war, Sica gave up a piece of his lucrative bookmaking business to Dragna.
• Later on, Tan's bookies visited him in an hawker centre and warn him on the increase of police enforcement; 4D King handed Tan $25,000 and added interest-free for three months, and now totaling his debts to $40,000 ($15,000 was due to the bets), and to be returned within three months.
• The book follows the adventures of his father in the world of bookies and bettors, fighters and fixers, set against the often-romanticized backdrop of Depression-era New York City.
• It revolved around the splay-footed racehorse and its owners Joe (Swedish like himself) and his wife Gladys, children Oigle and Doigle, their jockey cousin Manfred and the colourful characters of the racecourse – gamblers, drunks, bookies, nobblers, touts, society belles and so on.
• Graham loved the offbeat, shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports – the gamblers, bookies, struggling horse trainers, and injury-riddled jockeys, and fight managers and promoters hustling for a buck or demonstrating the resiliency to continue in search of that elusive big payday.
• During the flourishing of textile mills in Mumbai, many mill workers played matka, resulting in bookies opening their shops in and around the mill areas, predominantly located in Parel in Central Mumbai and Kalbadevi in South Mumbai.
• Gambling was legal at the track, but an even larger amount was wagered off-track by unlicensed bookies, often backed by criminal syndicates.
• Wagman (who was considered a "master fixer" according to Hogan) and his backers, which included three go-betweens in former University of Alabama basketball players Dan Quindazzi and Jerry Vogel alongside a University of Connecticut football player that was on their team at the time named William "Bill" Minnerly, inadvertently tipped off the feds by betting on the winners of a game between the University of Connecticut and Colgate University on March 3, 1961 (which ended with a blowout 71–30 win for Colgate) by going over the spread of 11 points before bookies closed bets on that game sensing correctly that a fix was in there (with the three Connecticut players that helped fix that game for Colgate later being identified as Glenn Cross, Pete Kelly, and Jack Rose).

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