Usually means: Wagering money on uncertain outcomes.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bet, bet, bet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Be't, Bet, be't, bet, bet: Wordnik
  7. bet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BET, Bet, bet: Wiktionary
  9. bet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BET, bet: Dictionary.com
  13. bet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BET (French TV channel), BET (TV channel), BET, Bet (disambiguation), Bet (letter), Bet (song), Bet, The Bet (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), The Bet (short story), The Bet (unaired Seinfeld episode), The Bet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bet: Rhymezone
  19. bet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BET: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. bet: Free Dictionary
  23. bet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bet: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. bet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  2. bet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. bet, bet: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. BET: Acronym Finder
  3. BET: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. bet: Idioms
  6. bet: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  7. bet: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BET (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bet, bet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. B.E.T, B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television), Bet: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bet: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Keno Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See beting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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:  (Philippines, figuratively, informal, by extension) A candidate (for elections and pageants).
noun:  Indicating a degree of certainty, or that something can be relied upon.
verb:  To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
verb:  To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
verb:  (poker) 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.
noun:  (analytical chemistry) An adsorption technique used to measure the specific surface area of a solid, typically using nitrogen gas at a temperature of 77 K.
noun:  A diminutive of the female name Elizabeth.
noun:  Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”) [The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁]

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