(in Victoria) a government-run agency where bets can be placed on races and other events.
had I invested my usual $10 each way, I figure I'd have collected around $150 at the lucky shop
Example sentencesExamples
Brian has two special loves: the tracking road and the lucky shop.
If, like me, you have found yourself in a lucky shop wondering what to do with your last $20 for the week, there's one team you can invest your finances in with great confidence.
He was intrigued by the number of people at the so-called 'Lucky Shop' frittering away all kinds of money on undisciplined quadrella betting.
Just about everyone succumbs—from medium-size children with badly concealed headphones in school desks to bumptious matrons who sorely test the floor space of every lucky shop in the land.
It was not fair to the proprietors of lucky shops that might be in the same towns as hotels that had a direct telephone betting service.