go a raker

verb

To bet a large amount of money on a certain racehorse.

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Meanings

verbgo a raker (third-person singular simple present goes a raker, present participle going a raker, simple past went a raker, past participle gone a raker)

present singular third person goes a raker · participle present going a raker · past went a raker · participle past gone a raker

  1. UKarchaicslangTo bet a large amount of money on a certain racehorse.

    1891, 3 April, Lie. Vict. Gaz. Then he went a raker on the favourite for the St. Leger, but the brute was not even shopped.

    1 more example

    Finally, rendered desperate by failure after failure, I went a raker for a horse that I had heard on unquestionable authority was a real 'good thing' for the Cambridgeshire. He came in last but one in the race, […]

    1902, Finch Mason, Annals of the Horse-Shoe Club, page 195
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