单词 | street bookie |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet bookie street bookie n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker commission agent1798 flash-man1812 bookmaker1833 commissioner1851 ring man1857 metallician1861 street bookmaker1867 bookie1877 book1881 knight of the pencil1885 handbook man1894 street bookie1911 turf accountant1915 listman1922 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. < as lemmas |
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