linemaker

An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.

Noun

  1. An employee of a gambling establishment who sets the line, or spread.
    • Mike Battaglia, who is the public handicapper for The Louisville Courier-Journal, the linemaker for Churchill Downs and an analyst on NBC’s Kentucky Derby telecasts, described his own recent record in the Derby this...

Origin

From line + maker.

Forms

linemakers