Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

comeback money

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: come-back- -money
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Money that is used by an agent of a bookie to place a large bet on a horse who has large odds, thereby causing the odds on that horse to decline, reducing the bookie's potential losses in the event that the horse wins.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Lots of people notice at the track that the tote board will change at the last moment; odds will drop on a horse from 20 to 1 to 8 to 1, something like that, which means that all comeback money has just come in."
"The "comeback money" may represent large bets which illegal bookmakers are unable to "lay off" among themselves, bets which no one in the bookmaking organization desires to hold."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does comeback money mean?: Money that is used by an agent of a bookie to place a large bet on a horse who has large odds, thereby causing the odds on that horse to decline, reducing the bookie's potential losses in the event that the horse wins.

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