bet
Listen:For the verb: "to bet"
| Simple Past: | bet |
| Past Participle: | bet |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bet/bet/
▶verb (bets, betting; past and past part. bet or betted)
- 1 risk a sum of money or other valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game.
- 2 informal used to express certainty: he'll be surprised to see me, I'll bet.
■ a sum of money staked.
■ informal a candidate or option offering a specified likelihood of success: Allen looked a good bet for victory.
■ (one's bet) informal one's opinion.
– phrases
you bet! informal you may be sure; certainly.
you bet! informal you may be sure; certainly.
– derivatives
betting noun,
bettor (also better) noun.
betting noun,
bettor (also better) noun.
– origin C16: perh. a shortening of the obs. noun abet ‘abetment’.
'bet' also found in these Oxford entries:
accumulator
- ante-post
- back
- banker
- Beth Din
- bottom
- bouncing Bet
- check
- double
- each-way
- faro
- flutter
- gamble
- handle
- lay
- nose
- odds
- pay-off
- perfecta
- place
- play
- poker
- punt
- punter
- quinella
- raise
- safe bet
- saver
- see
- shirt
- treble
- trifecta
- wager
- Yankee
- yarborough
