noun. An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager.

noun. An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake.

noun. One on which a stake is or can be placed.

noun. undefined

noun. A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence.

noun. A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time.

intransitive verb. To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

intransitive verb. To make a bet with.

intransitive verb. To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

intransitive verb. To maintain confidently, as if making a bet.

intransitive verb. To make or place a bet.

idiom. (you bet) Of course; surely.

Obsolete and earlier Middle English form of better.

To pledge as a forfeit to another who makes a similar pledge in return, on a future contingency, in support of an affirmation or opinion; stake; wager.

To lay a wager; stake money or anything of value upon a contingency.

noun. The pledging of some valuable thing, as money (or of the doing of some onerous act), to bc forfeited, in ease some future event happens contrary to the assertion or belief of the one making the pledge, to another who pledges a forfeit in return on the opposite contingency.

noun. That which is wagered; also, that about which a wager is made.

noun. In faro, a card which is a case, that is, the only one of that denomination remaining in the box: so called because the player cannot be split.

noun. An obsolete preterit of beat.

noun. That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

transitive verb. To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

imp. & p. p. of beat.

An early form of better.

to go fast; to hurry.

noun. Alternative form of beth.

abbreviation. between

noun. A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

noun. A degree of certainty.

verb. To agree that payment be made to the successful forecaster of the result of an event (usually sporting) by the other party in the agreement. To make a guess about the outcome of an event.

verb. To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

verb. To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

verb. stake on the outcome of an issue

noun. the money risked on a gamble

noun. the act of gambling

verb. maintain with or as if with a bet

verb. have faith or confidence in

heeled bet  mouth bet  open bet  to bar a bet  to press a bet  

betted  betting  

anticipate  bank  call  forebode  foretell  

Annette  Antoinette  Bernadette  Bizet  Bret  

bonus  buy  card  check  contribution  

ante  ante up  back  bet on  book  

beat  betted  better  betting  

bets  betted  betting