TO MAKE A BOOK

Definition: TO MAKE A BOOK

TO MAKE A BOOK

1. (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Familiar Quotations: TO MAKE A BOOK

Author	Quotation
Bruyere	It is quite as much of a trade to make a book, as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: TO MAKE A BOOK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-k-k-m-o-o-o-t"
	-4 letters: tokamak, tokomak.
	-5 letters: amoeba, bemata, betook, tambak, tombak.
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