Sentence examples for bookie a from inspiring English sources

L.R. is an example of the "bookie's bookie," a type that usually has some background as a gambler or bookmaker in the United States.

One of them was The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, a film that displays most of the faults of his kind of on-the-hoof film-making - and all the virtues.

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Bulger was a ready-made caricature of this nation's prototypical gangbanger a bookie, a loanshark, a protect-the-business-by-any-means-necessary kind of guy and he had an origin story seemingly prewritten for a true wise guy, or at least for a Martin Scorcese flick.

Patterson told Cheddar he considers the project a "bookie," or a book meets a movie.

They were a trainer, a bookie, and a rich man, whose horse the jockey had ridden that afternoon.

Is there anyone who is an auteur in an Arnold Schwarzenegger film?" "I need it like a bookie handicapping a horse race," said the critic Philip Lopate of auteurism.

That's the way a bookie at a casino does it.

At first, he decided to forgo college, running for a bookie at a local racetrack.

After his retirement in the 1950s, he worked as a bookie and a timber merchant.

Instead, he was a bookie and a professional gambler.