Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who regularly bets on horseraces.
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- noun A person who
bets on horse races
Etymologies
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Examples
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A top professional horseplayer once told me that compared to handicapping horse races, elections were a cakewalk.
Keith Thomson: Gamblers' Election-Forecasting Prowess and How They're Betting on the 2010 Races Keith Thomson 2010
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She is laughing her deep, heartfelt laugh while a grinning Bradlee punches the air with a fist, looking like a horseplayer whose long-shot daily double just came in.
Katharine Graham: Portrait of a lady, on display in D.C. Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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He was a dreamer, a long-shot horseplayer, a man with a sense of wonder who was genuinely happy to see others - even strangers, like the astronauts - achieve their goals.
Charlie Carillo: Brooklyn, We Have a Problem Charlie Carillo 2011
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He was a dreamer, a long-shot horseplayer, a man with a sense of wonder who was genuinely happy to see others - even strangers, like the astronauts - achieve their goals.
Charlie Carillo: Brooklyn, We Have a Problem Charlie Carillo 2011
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I already knew and enjoyed hanging out with the heroes -- Charlie, an inveterate horseplayer, and his father, Drummond, whom he'd always thought was a doddering appliance salesman but really is a CIA all-star.
Keith Thomson: The Challenges of Following Up a Bestselling Novel Keith Thomson 2011
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A top professional horseplayer once told me that compared to handicapping horse races, elections were a cakewalk.
Keith Thomson: Gamblers' Election-Forecasting Prowess and How They're Betting on the 2010 Races Keith Thomson 2010
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I already knew and enjoyed hanging out with the heroes -- Charlie, an inveterate horseplayer, and his father, Drummond, whom he'd always thought was a doddering appliance salesman but really is a CIA all-star.
Keith Thomson: The Challenges of Following Up a Bestselling Novel Keith Thomson 2011
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And as any horseplayer can tell you, sometimes the long shots do win.
What A Night! Interpreting the New Hampshire Primary - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And as any horseplayer can tell you, sometimes the long shots do win.
What A Night! Interpreting the New Hampshire Primary - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The baseball man Charlie Dressen was a horseplayer.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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