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bookmaker
(redirected from turf accountant)

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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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Byline: MARK WINSTANLEY AT the beginning of November many moons ago, yours truly used to sit outside a Dean's Turf Accountant emporium in darkest Downham, with a face painted on a football screaming at the top of my lungs "Penny for the Guy".
Turf Moor is not the place Fergie would have chosen to visit so early in the season - he'd have much preferred turf accountants - and Owen Coyle's men have to be worth a bet at 11-1 to beat a side who on Sunday against Birmingham looked like a good hiding waiting to happen.
In that raid, two robbers armed with a crowbar and a machete targeted Mark Lombard Turf Accountants in Brandon Road, Binley.
 
 
 
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