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  • noun Plural form of bookmaker.

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Examples

  • In trying to bamboozle potential customers, many services make claims about having scouts all over the country that give them inside information and promise 70 or even 80 percent winners, as if the bookmakers were the biggest suckers in the world.

    Chris Maloney: Don't Be A Square: 10 Tips For Betting On Football Chris Maloney 2010

  • In trying to bamboozle potential customers, many services make claims about having scouts all over the country that give them inside information and promise 70 or even 80 percent winners, as if the bookmakers were the biggest suckers in the world.

    Chris Maloney: Don't Be A Square: 10 Tips For Betting On Football Chris Maloney 2010

  • In trying to bamboozle potential customers, many services make claims about having scouts all over the country that give them inside information and promise 70 or even 80 percent winners, as if the bookmakers were the biggest suckers in the world.

    Chris Maloney: Don't Be A Square: 10 Tips For Betting On Football Chris Maloney 2010

  • In trying to bamboozle potential customers, many services make claims about having scouts all over the country that give them inside information and promise 70 or even 80 percent winners, as if the bookmakers were the biggest suckers in the world.

    Chris Maloney: Don't Be A Square: 10 Tips For Betting On Football Chris Maloney 2010

  • The only likely options open to the CPS are conspiracy to defraud bookmakers, which is unlikely to result in a conviction because there is no evidence a bet was placed on the no-balls in question, and the offence of cheating under the Gambling Act, which remains untested in court.

    Shamed Pakistan players remain suspended after ICC rejects appeals Owen Gibson 2010

  • At the moment, with most big-name bookmakers having slunk offshore, they seem to be winning the levy argument.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Lydia Hislop 2010

  • The tight end is expected to gain 67.5 yards according to the bookmakers, which is an absurd number considering he's reached the 68 mark just once in his last 10 games.

    13WHAM: Top Stories 2010

  • The people to whom nowadays we give big fortunes, though they include a large number of organizers of useful industry, also number within their ranks a crowd of hangers on such as bookmakers, sharepushers, and vendors of patent pills or bad stuff to read.

    International Finance Hartley Withers 1908

  • But, at that date, playwrights could not well be called "bookmakers," for the owners of the plays did their best to keep them from appearing as printed books.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • Financial 'bookmakers' are anticipating the major European markets in Britain, Germany and France to all open more than 1 per cent down.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

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