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Handicapper   /hˈændikˌæpər/   Listen
Handicapper

noun
1.
Someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race).  Synonym: odds-maker.






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"Handicapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... this morning at nine o'clock, and by noon only Somers, Whipple, and West had been left in the match. Blair had encountered defeat most unexpectedly at the hands of Greene, a junior, of whose prowess but little had been known by the handicapper; for, although Blair had done the round in three strokes less than his adversary's gross score, the latter's allowance of six strokes had placed him an easy winner. But Blair had been avenged later by West, who had defeated the youngster by three strokes ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour



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