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  • noun Plural form of bookie.

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Examples

  • With betting on SPIN suspended and the main bookies all over the place on the above questions, we punters need the inside track.

    Anecdotal evidence from Norwich North which may be important or may be not Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Those that run Pakistani cricket - the PCB are the real culprits - they should be banned from ctricket and the Pak criciketers made to feel more valued so they are not so easilly attracted towards 'bookies' - wacha say?

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Get ready to call your bookies, old people—the truth will set you free.

    Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Get ready to call your bookies, old people—the truth will set you free.

    Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Get ready to call your bookies, old people—the truth will set you free.

    Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Get ready to call your bookies, old people—the truth will set you free.

    Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Get ready to call your bookies, old people—the truth will set you free.

    The Itchy and Steeler Show Chuck Klosterman 2004

  • This means that sports fans better think twice before calling their bookies when they hear: "Patriot head coach Bill Belichick has thrown acid into the face of star quarterback Tom Brady, apparently out of jealousy that Brady was handsome and loved, while he himself was a hideous monster."

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • This means that sports fans better think twice before calling their bookies when they hear: Patriot head coach Bill Belichick has thrown acid into the face of star quarterback Tom

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Ending any cosy sponsorship with the bookies might be the best place to start a more vigorously policed operation.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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