The word 'bookie' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who takes bets or operates a betting business, such as a 'bookmaker' or 'betting agent'. For example, "I need to talk to my bookie about the horse race I bet in yesterday."
So on September 1st David Paterson, New York's governor, announced that the OTB will soon file for protection under Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy code.The OTB, the city's only legal bookie, was created in 1970, in part to take gambling out of the hands of organised crime by providing a legitimate outlet for betting on horses.
Now, it looks like gambling may be the next to go.New York's Off-Track Betting Corporation (OTB), the city's quasi-public bookie, revealed a plan last week that may shut down its entire operation by mid-June.
With a cellular phone, the local bookie can operate anywhere.
Only 18 months ago, Australia's Shane Warne, who is one of Wisden's five cricketers of the century, could have been banned for several years after admitting taking money from a Delhi bookie.
The largest single collection of his works was owned by a bookie, Alfie McLean, an Ulsterman, who bought some and took others in lieu of gambling debts.
"We've had to chuck people out," grumbles one bookie.
Stu Ungar, the son of a bookie who learned to gamble at his father's bar, won the "Main Event" for the second year on the trot.
The police have published a tape recording of a telephone conversation, apparently between Mr Cronje and a bookie, to back their claim.Few countries are as mad about sport as South Africa: for whites especially, rugby and cricket are the prime sources of national pride in victory and shame in defeat.
After that he was convicted of trying to bribe a basketball player, suspected of procuring hand grenades, detonators and fuses for Chicago gangsters, implicated in a bombing in Miami's "bookie wars" and indicted for racketeering in California.It was no surprise that he should have been drawn to Las Vegas, a town whose casinos were still largely Mafia-run in the 1960s.
No bookie would give short odds on that.
Though neither bookie nor bishop signed up for Michael Portillo's crusade to drag the party's social attitudes into the 1960s, both claim to uphold the liberal decencies.
