make book

make book {v. phr.}

To serve as a bookmaker taking bets on the horse races.

The police were out to prosecute anybody who made book illegally.

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[book] See: [CLOSED BOOK], [CLOSE THE BOOKS], [HIT THE BOOKS], [KEEP BOOKS], [NOSE IN A BOOK], [ONE FOR THE BOOKS], [READ ONE LIKE A BOOK], [TALKING BOOK], [THROW THE BOOK […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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