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单词 street bookie
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street bookie
street bookie n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker
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1911 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Daily Press 27 Feb. 6/3 My friend found he had been presented with a couple of coppers wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with the names of three horses... He had evidently been mistaken for some street bookie.
1939 John o' London's Weekly 2 June 320/2 He gets himself..into minor social difficulties, finding himself one day..in the police cells in Kennington, accused of being a street-bookie.
1993 Independent on Sunday 8 Aug. 18/6 He used to be a street bookie before it was made legal in 1961.
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