mutuel
(mytyɛl, ˈmjuːtjuːəl)
Chiefly N. Amer. shortening of pari mutuel. Freq. attrib. and in pl. Also transf. (see quot. 1949).
| 1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 16/2 In France last year 320,000,000 francs passed through the ‘mutuel’. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 July 10/5 Returns from the ‘mutuels’ show that British Columbians are betting as much as ever, or more so, at the Vancouver races. 1938 D. Runyon Furthermore vi. 113 Then I see Herbie start for the mutuels windows. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Sept. 17/4 The mutuel machines will do close to a $400,000,000 business around New York tracks this season. 1949 Amer. Speech XXIV. 193/1 Race mutuels, a number game in which the winning number is derived from the racing results of any well-known race track. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 40/8 The better class horses would attract more patrons who..would accelerate the mutuels play. 1972 N.Y. Times 1 June 56/1 The scramble had handled $659,439..meaning the scramble accounted for 8.45 per cent of the mutuel business. 1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 86/2 Serious horseplayers will be sorry to hear..that the take from the mutuels will again be seventeen per cent. |