bookmaker, bookie
(noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
bookmaker
(noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bookmaker (plural bookmakers)
A person who prints or binds books.
A person who compiles books from the writings of others.
A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.
Source: Wiktionary
Book"mak`er, n.
1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
2. (Horse Racing)
Definition: A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
