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bookmaker
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bookmaker
a person who as an occupation accepts bets, esp on horseraces, and pays out to winning betters


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Chip Taylor is probably the only composer of a Troggs hit able to reel off anecdotes about placing bets with mob boss Meyer Lansky's bookies.
Shoeless Joe Jackson haunted our clubhouse until last month; the infamous "Black Sox" allegedly threw the 1919 World Series for the benefit of bookies.
Most of the sheriff's investigations begin with tips from disgruntled gamblers who claim to have been shortchanged, along with wives of self-destructive gamblers or bookies trying to eliminate competition, Herrera said.
 
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