BETTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does betting mean? 

• BETTING (adjective)
  The adjective BETTING has 1 sense:

1. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

  Familiarity information: BETTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BETTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

Synonyms:

betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting

Context example:

sporting gents and their ladies

Similar:

indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)

 Context examples 

“The betting keeps up for all that,” said Belcher.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Desborough, their horse, was second in the betting, they had an interest in the disappearance of the favourite.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am betting you are about to hear that you have scored a professional victory at this time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Many people enjoy gambling, whether it's betting on a horse or playing poker on the Internet.

(Compulsive Gambling, NIH: Natonal Institutes of Health)

Amateur sport is free from betting, but a good deal of outside betting goes on among the public, and it is possible that it might be worth someone’s while to get at a player as the ruffians of the turf get at a race-horse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I’ll never believe the betting would rise like that if somebody didn’t know something. We’ll hold on by our teeth and nails, Sir Charles, and see what comes of it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Silver Blaze,” said he, “is from the Isonomy stock, and holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. He is now in his fifth year, and has brought in turn each of the prizes of the turf to Colonel Ross, his fortunate owner. Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favourite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him. He has always, however, been a prime favourite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him. It is obvious, therefore, that there were many people who had the strongest interest in preventing Silver Blaze from being there at the fall of the flag next Tuesday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I have great hopes—in fact, the betting is exactly two to one—that if you will come with us to-night I shall be able to help you to lay him by the heels.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What’s the betting, boys?” asked Belcher, from the steps.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How is the betting?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)