linemaker
nounEtymology From line + maker.
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 way: “Bad. Just bad.”2008 May 2, Bill Finley, “As Handicapping Gets Less Common, It Also Gets Harder”, in New York Times: