Since betting on sports is illegal in many places, you can't always look up your local bookie in the phone book.

He had into a local bookie's in the sweltering ; to rob them.

This race created so much interest that the local bookie took bets on which cane farmer was 'right'.

"Instead of having the local bookies get all the money, we could have the revenue."

Instead of having the local bookies get all these millions and millions of dollars, we could.

Peter gets a job at the local bookies, stealing money from the dodgy owner and making it look like a break-in.

We're running a sting operation on a local bookie.

Trying to get even, he bets with a local bookie, and loses.

She waited every evening to get the phone call from her Uncle Henry, the local bookie, announcing that day's winning number.

Suddenly, the local candy-store bookie is starting to look a lot better.