mutueln.adj.
/ˈmjuːtʃʊəl/, /ˈmjuːtjʊəl/, U.S. /ˈmjutʃ(əw)əl/ Chiefly North American.
= pari-mutuel n. (see also quot. 1949). Also attributive or as adj.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet
swoopstake1599
by-beta1627
levant1714
even money1732
play or pay bet1738
side bet1769
long shot1796
sweep1849
pay-or-play1853
sweepstake1861
pari-mutuel1868
to go a raker1869
flutter1874
skinner1874
by-wager1886
plunge1888
accumulator1889
saver1891
mutuel1893
quinella1902
parlay1904
Sydney or the bush1924
treble1924
daily double1930
all-up1933
round robin1944
double1951
twin double1960
perfecta1961
pool1963
lose bet1964
tiercé1964
Yankee bet1964
Yankee1967
nap1971
superfecta1971
tricast1972
triple1972
trixie1973
telebetting1974
trifecta1974
over-and-under1975
over-under1981
spread bet1981
1893 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 602 French or mutuel pools are lotteries pure and simple.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 16/2 In France last year 320,000,000 francs passed through the ‘mutuel’.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 10/5 Returns from the ‘mutuels’ show that British Columbians are betting as much as ever, or more so, at the Vancouver races.
1938 D. Runyon Furthermore vi. 113 Then I see Herbie start for the mutuels windows.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Sept. 17/4 The mutuel machines will do close to a $400,000,000 business around New York tracks this season.
1949 Amer. Speech 24 193/1 Race mutuels, a number game in which the winning number is derived from the racing results of any well-known race track.
1972 N.Y. Times 1 June 56/1 The scramble had handled $659,439..meaning the scramble accounted for 8.45 per cent of the mutuel business.
1987 New Scientist 29 Oct. 49/1 To operate the mutuel system, the totalisator has to add up individual bets of different denominations on particular dogs..and produce a grand total, or pool, for each class of bet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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