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BETTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Example:
sporting gents and their ladies
Synonyms:
betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting
Classified under:
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bet
Context examples:
But what in the world’s amiss with the betting?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That’s how the betting got turned,” said my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The betting has all been upon the understanding that young Jim Harrison was my man’s opponent.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But round after round the west-countryman fell, and round after round the betting rose, until the odds were higher in our favour than ever they had been against us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What’s the betting now, Sir Lothian?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The betting is three to one against him now,” said a gentleman, whose grizzled moustache showed that he was an officer of the late war.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the whole, however, the betting was in favour of Wilson, for Bristol and the west country stood by him to a man, whilst London opinion was divided.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How could the betting change from three to two to seven to one?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The betting was still steadily in favour of Wilson, for he had a number of bye-battles to set against this single victory of Jim’s, and it was thought by connoisseurs who had seen him spar that the singular defensive tactics which had given him his nickname would prove very puzzling to a raw antagonist.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The betting began to rise upon the younger man from the instant that they were put face to face, for his advantages were obvious, whilst those qualities which had brought Harrison to the top in his youth were only a memory in the minds of the older men.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
