banker1
/ˈbaŋkə
/noun
1A person who manages or owns a bank or group of banks.They do it to bulge the bank accounts of bankers, company managers, and investors all over the world....
- The article discusses six Barclays bankers who managed to spend £44,000 on one meal.
- We have been acting as bankers and managers to public issues.
1.1The person running the table, controlling play, or acting as dealer in some gambling or board games.When you bet, you place the money on the table and the banker detaches an equal amount from the bank to match your bet....
- In Pai Gow Poker, do you ever recommend being the banker?
- To win at Pai Gow poker, you have to beat both of the banker's hands with both of your hands.
2British A supposedly certain bet: the horse should be a banker for him in the Members' race...
- The banker has to be Baracouda (Stayers' Hurdle, Thur 1435).
- The opening race of the meeting, which began to the sound of the famous Cheltenham cheer, was won by Brave Inca, one of the Irish bankers of the meeting.
- Moscow Flyer also proved to be the pick of Geraghty's winners last year, taking the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the 10-year-old as his banker once again this year.
2.1A result forecast identically (while other forecasts differ) in several football-pool entries on one coupon.If they did, shrewd, at perhaps not so shrewd, punters would immediately name Newry Town's match as one of their bankers for a score draw....
- However, this season has surpassed even that of last term, with East Stirling very much the punter's friend if looking for a banker for the fixed odds coupon.
- You look at some games and they look like a guaranteed banker.
Rhymes
banker2
/ˈbaŋkə/noun
1A boat employed in cod fishing off Newfoundland.There has been a long and proud tradition of rowing in Callinafercy down through the years from the banker fishing boat to the present Four Oar and Seine Boat and now the One Design Boat.
1.1A Newfoundland fisherman.
2Australian /NZ informal A river flooded to the top of its banks.I was also reminded that after Tony's last big birthday affair, the skies opened up and the normally dry dusty Todd ran a banker for a couple of days.
3An additional locomotive used to assist a train in ascending an incline.
4A bench at which a stonemason works.
Phrases
run (or come down) a banker
- nothingist
- nothingless
- nothing less than
- nothingly
- nothing much
- nothingness
- nothing of the kind
- nothing of the sort
- nothing (or nothing else) for it
- nothing succeeds like success
- nothing ventured, nothing gained
- nothingy
- Nothofagus
- nothomorph
- no-thoroughfare
- nothosaur
- no-thought
- no through road
- no-throw
- not-I
- notice
- noticeability
- noticeable
- noticeably
- noticeboard