Sentence examples for bookie are from inspiring English sources

I could as easily have put "A Woman Under the Influence" or "Faces" there, too, and "Minnie and Moskowitz" and "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" are close.

In joint fourth place to win, according to the bookie, are Tyler and Cusk, at 5/1, while Shamsie is at 6/1.

Next Pope betting: 5/2 Cardinal Ouellet, 3/1 Cardinal Arinze, 4/1 Cardinal Turkson Web: http://t.co/X3IhCpxO Mobile: http://t.co/WrItgPIK — Paddy Power (@paddypower) 11 Feb 13 The longest odds offered by the bookie are 1,000 to 1 on the Irish singer Bono, who is not Catholic, and the Irish television star Father Dougal Maguire, who is not real.

The bookie was probably packing his bags at halftime.

(Somewhere a bookie is working out the odds).

Suddenly, the local candy-store bookie is starting to look a lot better.

The bookie is now rumored to be living somewhere in Texas.

Another type of bookie is "the agnostic entrepreneur," for whom bookmaking is merely another business opportunity.

Every bookie is quoting literary odds now: Ladbrokes, William Hill, Paddy Power and Unibet are all at it.

That's because tomorrow's bookie is portable, accessible via an app on every phone in every purse or pocket.

It's a numbers game made tricky by the fact that the bookie is blinded by parental love.