"chalk eater" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the betting odds being written in chalk.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chalk eaters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chalk eater (plural chalk eaters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Time, volume 54, page 36",
          "text": "At six major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Mac Davis, Say it Ain't So!, page 149",
          "text": "Of horse players and the ragged army of grifters, touts and downright swindlers who attach themselves to the noble sport of kings there is no end of stories. Get a few of the chalk eaters and long shot hounds together during a lull in the day's occupation—picking the next day's card of winners—and the tales begin to come, thick and fast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win."
      ],
      "id": "en-chalk_eater-en-noun-5sCJZEVe",
      "links": [
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "racehorse",
          "racehorse"
        ],
        [
          "favourite",
          "favourite"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) One who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chalk player"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chalk eater"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the betting odds being written in chalk.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chalk eaters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chalk eater (plural chalk eaters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Time, volume 54, page 36",
          "text": "At six major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Mac Davis, Say it Ain't So!, page 149",
          "text": "Of horse players and the ragged army of grifters, touts and downright swindlers who attach themselves to the noble sport of kings there is no end of stories. Get a few of the chalk eaters and long shot hounds together during a lull in the day's occupation—picking the next day's card of winners—and the tales begin to come, thick and fast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "racehorse",
          "racehorse"
        ],
        [
          "favourite",
          "favourite"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) One who bets on racehorses that are favourites to win."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chalk player"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chalk eater"
}