linemaker
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]linemaker (plural linemakers)
- An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
- 2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.”