go a raker

English

Verb

go a raker (third-person singular simple present goes a raker, present participle going a raker, simple past went a raker, past participle gone a raker)

1. (UK, slang, archaic) To bet a large amount of money on a certain racehorse.
   • 1891, 3 April, Lie. Vict. Gaz.

     Then he went a raker on the favourite for the St. Leger, but the brute was not even shopped.

   • 1902, Finch Mason, Annals of the Horse-Shoe Club, page 195:

     Finally, rendered desperate by failure after failure, I went a raker for a horse that I had heard on unquestionable authority was a real 'good thing' for the Cambridgeshire. He came in last but one in the race, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary