What does gee-gees mean?

gee-gees

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English

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British usage; Slang

"He lost all his money on the gee-gees."
"DYSART: You won't gallop any more, Alan. Horses will be quite safe. You'll save your pennies every week, till you can change that scooter in for a car, and put the odd 50p on the gee-gees, quite forgetting that they were ever anything more to you than bearers of little profits and little losses."
"I put some money on the gee-gees last week, and I've got to see a bloke about it."

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