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The Food Network has betted heavily on him, giving him prime-time slots, and making him the face of the network’s new collaboration with the N.F.L., a series about tailgating that will be shown this fall.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2010

He has strained his purse in a bet, has betted on a winning horse, and has won five pounds.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 by Chambers, William