Sentence examples for bookie talk from inspiring English sources

He likes placing bets, and sometimes lapses into racetrack bookie talk, spitting out odds on likely winners of everything from an upcoming weekend golf game to races at the company picnic.

In the two weeks leading up to the game, the weather was all my bookies wanted to talk about, which was annoying but also made perfect sense.

But unless it can grow to treehood outdoors, don't talk to any bookies about grapefruit; it's about as likely as winning the lottery.

The Twitter bookies were clearly not eager to talk to me, but they inadvertently led me to polished websites offering the same service on a much larger scale, where you could gamble with FIFA coins to win more.

The Twitter bookies were none too keen to talk to me either, but they inadvertently led me to polished websites offering the same service on a much larger scale.

The bookies love it when people are daft enough to talk about their "Cheltenham banker" as if there could ever be such a thing.

Verizon has applied the branding iron, and starting this week everybody in Manhattan must punch in a 1 and then a 212 (or a 646 or 917) in front of the old local number before talking to his or her office or bookie or life companion or dog-walker or newspaper-delivery service (where was our Post yesterday?).

Talk story about discussing the off-track-betting situation with a bookie named Arthur.

The New Yorker, October 21, 1944 P. 21 Talk story about Tom Kane, an 89-year-old retired jockey, who was arrested on charge of being a bookie.

By Brendan Gill The New Yorker, October 21, 1944 P. 21 Talk story about Tom Kane, an 89-year-old retired jockey, who was arrested on charge of being a bookie.

The negotiations represent the latest attempt by the bookie's chief executive Richard Glynn to acquire an online rival to plug gaps in his struggling website, following aborted talks with both Sportingbet and 888.