betting

Etymology

adj

  1. Describing one who bets or gambles.
    If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bet

noun

  1. The act of placing a bet.
    Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground. 1989, Jesse O. McKee, The Choctaw

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