tipsters
Share winning predictions
Tipsters are people who provide tips—usually predictions about horse races, sports outcomes, or stock picks, often for a fee or subscription.
The term carries a slightly disreputable air, suggesting insider knowledge of uncertain reliability: The tipster promised a sure thing in the third race.
Tipster also means someone who provides information to authorities: A tipster alerted police to the hideout.
Likelihood expressed numerically
- handicapperOne who assigns advantages
- bookmakerOne who takes bets
- punterOne who kicks footballs
- wagerStake on uncertainty
tout · stake · parlay · picks · sportsbook · accumulator · spread · underdog
One who tells authorities
- ratRodent or informer
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- sourcePoint of origin
- leakerOne who discloses secrets
nark · grass · fink · stoolie · squealer · canary · tattletale · hotline
Escape through a breach
- moleSubterranean insectivore
- sourcePoint of origin
- deep-throatSecret high-level informant
- scoopFirst-reported story
intelligence · secrets · classified · disclosure · confidential · expose · journalist · off-the-record
odds
Likelihood expressed numerically
- handicapperOne who assigns advantages
- bookmakerOne who takes bets
- punterOne who kicks footballs
wager · tout · stake · parlay · picks · sportsbook · accumulator · spread · underdog · favorite
snitch
One who tells authorities
- ratRodent or informer
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- sourcePoint of origin
leaker · nark · grass · fink · stoolie · squealer · canary · tattletale · hotline · tipoff
leak
Escape through a breach
- moleSubterranean insectivore
- sourcePoint of origin
- deep-throatSecret high-level informant
scoop · intelligence · secrets · classified · disclosure · confidential · expose · journalist · off-the-record · anonymous
- Crime Stoppershotlines, rewards, wanted posters, surveillance footage
- racetrack peoplejockeys, trainers, bettors, handicappers, railbirds
- WhistleblowersEdward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Deep Throat, leakers, exposers
- crimefighterscops, detectives, FBI, police, sheriffs
- gossiprumor, rumors, gossip, hearsay, whisper
- secretssecrecy, secret, trade secret, secrets, confidential
tipstersbookmakers
Those who accept bets
bookies · punters · bettors · oddsmakers · the house