Meaning & use
Totalizers
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Machines or systems that calculate and display running totals, especially of bets placed, as at a racetrack.
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The totalizers flashed the updated odds as more bets came in.
Old racetracks used mechanical totalizers before computers took over.
A note on using this word
The pari-mutuel betting system these machines run is often shortened to "tote," the same root word behind "totalizer."
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tote boards
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