bookie
/ˈbʊki
/noun (plural bookies) informal
A bookmaker.Anyone who has worked in a bookies, as have I, can spot them a mile off....
- Did you ever stand in a bookies shop on St Stephens Day for a period of time?
- We have won them all bar one since then and now the bookies believe they are about to be taken to the cleaners once again.
Rhymes
- pretendence
- pretender
- pretenderism
- pretendership
- pretendingly
- pretendress
- pretense
- pre-tension
- pretension
- pre-tensioner
- pretensionless
- pretensive
- pretensively
- pretensiveness
- pretentious
- pretentiously
- pretentiousness
- preter-
- pretercanine
- preter-Christian
- pretergeneration
- preterhuman
- preterimperfect
- preterist
- preterit