make a book

make a book (third-person singular simple present makes a book, present participle making a book, simple past and past participle made a book)

1. (horseracing, archaic) To act as a bookmaker.

   Synonym: make book

   • 1866, Henry John Rous, On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing:

     it must be acknowledged that it is impossible to make a book on any important race without the security of Play or Pay

• bookmaker

• “book”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.