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nounlinemaker (plural linemakers)
plural linemakers
- An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
Mike Battaglia, who is the public handicapper for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the linemaker for Churchill Downs and an analyst on NBC’s Kentucky Derby telecasts, described his own recent record in the Derby this way: “Bad. Just bad.”
2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times
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APA
linemaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/linemaker
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“linemaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/linemaker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “linemaker,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/linemaker.
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