get-out bet

noun

A last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.

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Meanings

nounget-out bet (plural get-out bets)

plural get-out bets

  1. A last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.

    Back on the road and it's destination Surfers Paradise via every available TAB including Casino, Mooball, Tweed Heads and worse still, Gibbsy's get out bet at Ouyen trots blew a tyre when it was six metres in front and 80 meters to go and ran fifth.

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 110
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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