| 单词 | street bookmaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreet bookmaker street bookmaker 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 1867 Times 30 May 14/2 What a solemn mockery of justice it is to hunt down the street bookmaker..who could..recite by the hour true stories of roguery equal to any of his own. 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? xvi. 238 We [sc. cabmen] have come to look on the police-court dock as a normal trade risk—just as street-bookmakers and prostitutes do. 2003 Oxf. Encycl. Econ. Hist. (Electronic ed.) at Gambling Cash betting shops had been closed by law in England in 1853, but illegal off-track cash betting with ‘street bookmakers’ continued on a wide scale. < as lemmas |
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