"sucker bet" meaning in English

See sucker bet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sucker bets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sucker bet (plural sucker bets)
  1. (gambling) A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning. Categories (topical): Gambling
    Sense id: en-sucker_bet-en-noun-ZWAbVNje Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: gambling, games

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sucker bet meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sucker bets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sucker bet (plural sucker bets)",
      "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gambling",
          "orig": "en:Gambling",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning."
      ],
      "id": "en-sucker_bet-en-noun-ZWAbVNje",
      "links": [
        [
          "gambling",
          "gambling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "wager",
          "wager"
        ],
        [
          "expected",
          "expected"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "odds",
          "odds"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gambling) A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gambling",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sucker bet"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sucker bets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sucker bet (plural sucker bets)",
      "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",
        "en:Gambling"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gambling",
          "gambling#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "wager",
          "wager"
        ],
        [
          "expected",
          "expected"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "odds",
          "odds"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(gambling) A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gambling",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sucker bet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.