linemaker

English

Etymology

line +‎ maker

Noun

linemaker (plural linemakers)

  1. An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
    • 2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times‎:
      Mike Battaglia, who is the public handicapper for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the linemaker for Churchill Downs and an analyst on NBC’s Kentucky Derby telecasts, described his own recent record in the Derby this way: “Bad. Just bad.”

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