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• n  a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
• n  a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)

• D: And that means you have to go to Vegas with it or a bookmaker in New York City.
• He quoted one of his 1941 columns: "Secret of the unlimited cash of Virginia Hill, mystery girl who tossed bales of dough around Miami Beach this winter, is a Chicago bookmaker.
• He cites the case of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who was targeted by an Indian bookmaker in London in 1999: "Fleming is an exceptionally intelligent, capable man, but it .

• bookie

News & Articles

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• FREEBETS.com Ranks Ladbrokes Top for Money-Back Offers
  Ladbrokes ranked highest among a cross-section of bookmakers when it came to money-back offers for customers, new analysis has claimed.
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Bookie describes being forced to pay Bulger gang
  BOSTON (AP) — A bookmaker is testifying that he and other bookies were forced to pay James "Whitey" Bulger and his gang to stay in business and if they didn't, they were told they could "wind up in the hospital."
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Mass. bookies describe being forced to pay Bulger gang or risk getting beaten, killed
  BOSTON — A bookmaker testifying in the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger has told jurors he once saw Bulger threaten to kill a bookie who tried to stop paying Bulger's gang and go into business for himself.
  June 14, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Epi Taione in New Zealand Herald
  We are going to enjoy this game. If anything the pressure is on South Africa,Taione said. "If you were a bookmaker you would probably put all your money on South Africa to win, but when we came here our realistic target was to beat United...
• Wellington Mara in New York Times
  Mara said firmly: "I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe...
• Borislav Mikhailov in Gaming Intelligence Group (registration)
  For me there is nothing more natural than that, the Bulgarian licensed bookmaker to be a partner of the Bulgarian Football Union and Bulgarian national teams,said Borislav Mihaylov, President of the Bulgarian Football Union. "Everybody...