bookie
/ˈbʊki
/noun (plural bookies) informal
A bookmaker.Anyone who has worked in a bookies, as have I, can spot them a mile off....
- Did you ever stand in a bookies shop on St Stephens Day for a period of time?
- We have won them all bar one since then and now the bookies believe they are about to be taken to the cleaners once again.
Rhymes
- Civil List pension
- Civil Lord
- civilly
- civil magistrate
- civil marriage
- civilness
- civil parish
- civil partnership
- civil plea
- civil religion
- civil righter
- civil rightist
- civil rights
- civil rights movement
- civil servant
- civil service
- civil society
- civil state
- civil union
- civil war
- civil wrong
- civil year
- civvy
- Civvy Street
- CJ