get-out bet

English

Noun

get-out bet (plural get-out bets)

  1. A last-ditch wager made in an attempt to recover losses from earlier bets; often placed late in the day or on the last available event.
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 110:
      Back on the road and it's destination Surfers Paradise via every available TAB including Casino, Mooball, Tweed Heads and worse still, Gibbsy's get out bet at Ouyen trots blew a tyre when it was six metres in front and 80 meters to go and ran fifth.
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