Meaning of quaddie | Babel Free

Definitions

A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.

Australia, colloquial

Examples

“2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82, He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.”

“I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won.”

“2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page, With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.”

“For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!”

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