Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that edits, prints, publishes, or binds books.
- n. One who accepts and pays off bets, as on a horserace. Also called bookie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A printer and binder of books.
- n. One who writes and publishes books; especially, a mere compiler.
- n. One who makes a book (see book, n., 9) on a race or other doubtful event; a professional betting man. See extract.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who prints or binds books
- n. A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
- n. (Horse Racing) A betting man who “makes a book.” See To make a book, under Book, n.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
- n. a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
Etymologies
- book + maker. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the U.K. online bookmaker is asking investors to make a risky gamble on its initial public offering.”
“BetonSports. com, a UK bookmaker, is offering numerous bets on what will befall the "Butcher of Baghdad" by December 31, 2004.”
“A bookmaker is someone who has thirty or fifty customers," he says.”
““So you know the slang for bookmaker, do you?” he asked, surprised that she did.”
“Sunday's reports alleged that Higgins called a bookmaker to place a bet of around £1,000 on himself to lose at the halfway point of last year's final, which he went on to win.”
“The disclosure that a leading Sri Lankan cricketer was under suspicion for too much late-night conviviality with a bookmaker is a warning that the Twenty20 Indian Premier League (IPL) is not immune to investigation by ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).”
“In the harsh glare of sunlit transparency, everyone can see that the emperor (the crooked bookmaker, that is) has no clothes.”
“The bookmaker is the Classic's current backer but it would have been a surprising association at the end of the second world war, 16 years before betting shops were legalised.”
“Bacon by "bookmaker" meant "playwright," he put a modest value on his poetical work!”
“The stockbroker is a kind of bookmaker, and the men and women who patronise both and make their wealth are fools who all may be lumped under the same heading.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bookmaker’.
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Book Keeping
A collection of book words.
bookkeeping, book, audio book, Booker T. Washington, Booker T. & the M..., book club, bookie, bookseller, bookshelf, bookworm, bookmaker, book learning and 132 more...
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book phrases and words
having a look at book
book hand, book-farmer, booketeria, book-gill, book-fancier, book-form, book-fed, book-fair, book end, book-desk, book-debt, book-crab and 264 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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See extract
Being a list of words which have the phrase "see extract" in their definitions. You might also find a few which have "see extract under" or "see the extract."
glove-sheep, clang, bookmaker, lackadaisical, apprehend, interfluvial, fortunate, intersect, cannelon, adoration, canter, headrace and 10 more...
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Irish English, proper nouns
Proper nouns in Irish English (usually, but not always, imported from Irish/Gaeilge words)
An Post, Seachtain na Gaelige, Bord Gáis, Bord na Móna, Bus Éireann, Busáras, Dáil Éireann, Iarnród Éireann, Taoiseach, Bord Fáilte, Bord Bia, Gaeltacht and 2 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Smith is the Name
perfumer, cobbler, pewterer, tailor, saddler, locksmith, goldsmith, glazier, brazier, mangonnier, romainier, passementier and 77 more...
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Gambling and Gaming
baize, tesserarian, ambidexter, blue chip, one-armed bandit, monte-bank, dicing-house, croupier, hazard, hazardry, gord, junket and 68 more...
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jodi IrE; in AmE use bookie May 5, 2011