bets
Meaning of bets
verb, 3rd person present
- risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game.
he bet on baseball games
I would be prepared to bet that he wanted to leave
most people would bet their life savings on the prospect
- used to express certainty.
I bet this place is really spooky late at night
he'll be surprised to see me, I'll bet
- an act of betting a sum of money.
she had a bet on the Derby
for a bet he once rode 200 miles in nine hours
late 16th century: perhaps a shortening of the obsolete noun abet ‘abetment’.
Information about bets
- The singular form of bets is: bet.
- Languages in which bets is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of bets
bets
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- bets is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bets synonyms
Meaning risk (a sum of money or valued item) against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event; bet:
Meaning play games of chance for money; bet:
Meaning support (a plant) with a stake or stakes:
Meaning expose (someone or something valued) to danger, harm, or loss:
Meaning undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action:
Meaning put (something) at risk of being lost:
Meaning do something by accident or without intending to:
Meaning move to or place in a particular position:
Meaning put in a particular position:
Meaning form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence:
Meaning travel in a punt:
Meaning regard (something) as likely to happen:
Meaning say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something:
Meaning a stake put up by a player in poker or brag before receiving cards:
Meaning an American:
Meaning a person or thing that accumulates something:
Meaning a bet in which the first two places in a race must be predicted in the correct order:
Meaning a bet in which the first two places in a race must be predicted, but not necessarily in the correct order:
Meaning a bet in which the person betting forecasts the first three finishers in a race in the correct order:
Meaning a small bet:
Meaning a bet placed on a series of sports events, the winnings and stake from each being placed on the next; an accumulator:
Anagrams of bets
Words that rhyme with bets
abets, alphabets, analphabets, drabbets, ebbets, flibbertigibbets, gibbets, gobbets, rabbets, Tebets, Thibets, quodlibets, thibets, zibets, gambets, zerumbets, barbets, overbets, sherbets, sorbets
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