Laddies
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- (UK, slang) Ladbrokes, a British-based betting and gambling company.
- 2006, michael adams, “Re: The fat oaf”, in uk.sport.horseracing (Usenet):
- If Laddies are opening a new betting shop and get McCririck to cut the ribbon, thousands of people will turn up.
- 2009, Roy Brindley, Life's a Gamble, page 218:
- My deal with Laddies had been signed long before betting opened on the Masterclassics.