each way
See also: each-way
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- each-way (adjective only; nonstandard for adverb)
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]each way (not comparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see each, way.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, gambling) For either a win or a place in a competition.
- 1966, Justice of the peace and local government review reports:
- According to the Crown's case, in pursuance of this scheme, a slip was handed in by Humphreys on Saturday, Feb. 6, 1965, for a five shilling each way Yankee bet coupled with a twenty shilling each way bet on one of the horses.
- 1973, J. P. Jones, Gambling yesterday and today: a complete history, page 114:
- A win bet carries one unit stake, a place bet one unit and an each way bet two units — one for win and one for place.
- 2013, Lee Werrell, How To Develop Your Natural Charisma The Easy Way:
- This horse does not achieve the criteria you have laid down, whether it is a win or an each way bet.
Adverb
[edit]each way (not comparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see each, way.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, gambling) For either a win or a place in a competition.
- 1946, Sean O'Faolain, Peadar O'Donnell, The Bell - Volume 12, page 132:
- At first the shilling each way I put on horses was not my own but the concession allowed me by the street bookmaker for the other bankers' bets I brought him.
- 1960, Great Britain Parliament, Western Australia Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 2465:
- In time it is envisaged that in this State betting will be permitted by way of doubles, quinellas, win, and place, as well as up-the-lot betting, for a win, for a place, and each way.
- 2011, Mark Senior, Changing Speed 2, →ISBN, page 84:
- He would put his 50 pence each way on Crisp or whoever whilst Mum's 50 pence each way went on Red Rum.
- 2014, Ivan Yates, Full On, →ISBN:
- I wanted to put sixpence on, each way.