take a flutter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To flutter for a short period of time.
Example Sentences
- "Jenny's pulse took a flutter at the word 'newspaper' now knowing that she was guilty."
- "“Now, that's a good question, and I'm glad to answer it,” Potter said. “The fact is that it occurred to me there might be a pigeon somewhere round here that was thinking of taking a flutter."
- "Hughes takes a flutter on the nearest six, nickel bets on thirty-one to thirty-six."
- "Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail."
- "I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it."
- "You'd hardly believe how difficult it was to interest the public and make them take a flutter on the old boy."