Betting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BETTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• risk a sum of money against (someone) on the outcome or likelihood of a future event
• used to express certainty
• risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game
NOUN:
• the act of placing a bet
• an act of betting a sum of money
• a sum of money staked
• a candidate or option offering a specified likelihood of success
• one's opinion about a future event
ADJECTIVE:
• preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wager
• the act of gambling on the outcome of a race

Words related to BETTING

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Words that contain BETTING

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How to use BETTING in a sentence

• If they had possessed any money the betting market would have shown scarcely a shade of odds.
• Everybody at Goodwood saw the game that was being played, everybody at Cowes is watching the cards, betting on the result.
• Duane needed no experienced eyes to see that betting was heavy and that heavy sums exchanged hands.
• Harris was on the point of betting Rattleton odds that Merriwell did not get a hit, when Frank found what he was looking for and sent it sailing into left.
• Of course I said no, and that with a very clear conscience, for I had never been addicted to betting nor card playing in my life.
• It was betting guineas against pennies, and on a limited stock of guineas.
• The quasi-gambling principle upon which all such places are conducted stimulates the love of hazard and makes way for the betting propensity to become full-blown.
• The betting, had there been betting, would no doubt have been in favour of the verdict.
• But now, suppose that the betting has gone far enough? What cards have you? For myself, I discover that I have drawn four kings.
• The fortunate horse was led around in triumph, and I saw an English lady, remarkable for her betting propensities, come out from the crowd and kiss it in apparent delight.
• If I was a betting man I would bet five to one that what your husband struck out, is just exactly what is wanted.
• They had feared that he too might turn to betting and drink, but he had never shown sign of low tastes.
• And this brings me to the subject of betting and gambling generally.
• And sometimes he returned thither after the performance, seeking anew the distraction of card-playing and betting, until he became notorious as the fiercest plunger in the place.
• They drew together, and she heard some low-voiced betting begin.
• Therefore I make no apology for introducing a puzzle that deals with betting.
• If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting.
• But he knew the betting odds were all the other way.
• Life and Death were playing stakes for his soul with the betting odds about even.
• When only four cards remain in the box there is generally lively betting as to how the three under cards will come out in precise order, the top one being visible.
• Talk about betting, eh! well, this little trick beats all betting.
• Selfridge and I are doing a little betting to-day, Big Chief Gambler.
• When he crawled up in the 50-cent Seats he found the same old Bunch that used to answer Roll Call at the Pool Room, the Sharkey Club, and the Betting Ring.
• Their eyes were close upon their cards, and one seemed to be dealing a card at a time to each, with pauses and betting between.
• At a table in the middle of the room several hard-looking fellows were betting at cards, amid terrible profanity and frequent drinks of whisky.
• If there was any betting upon this match, Hine would not be the loser.
• The time for talking and cheering and betting was past, the hour for action had arrived.
• She told me that early impressions had given Lena a kind of fanatical horror of betting, and that she had long ago made a sort of vow against a betting man.
• In New York and Brooklyn pool rooms were open for betting on these races.

Similar words containing BETT without suffix ing

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