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betting

 noun
     
bet‧ting
1 [uncountable] when people risk money on the results of games, competitions etc or other future events [↪ gambling]
2

what's the betting

, the betting is British English used to say that something seems very likely to happen or to be true:
What's the betting Dan's involved in this somewhere?
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