Meanings
plural quaddies
- AustraliacolloquialgamblingA quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.
2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page, With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.
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2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82, He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.
I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won.
2004 November 21, Josh Button, “Cup tips”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet)For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!
2007 July 16, gF, “Screw Fremantle”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet)Synonyms: quadrella
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.
Origin
From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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