Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a bookmaker’s office.

1941		N. Davis ‘Don’t Give Your Right Name’ in Goulart (1967) 18: People gonna think I’m running a bookie joint.
1951		Kerouac On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 253: Let’s you and me go play the horses over the bookie joint.
1956		T. Thursday ‘Dead Men Don’t Move’ in Smashing Detective Stories Jan. 🌐 Every time I go into a bookie joint I see him tossing the dice at the green table.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 791: bookie joint – A place where horse race wagers are taken.
1965		(con. 1930) E.M. Nathanson Dirty Dozen (2002) 355: It wasn’t really what you’d call a bookie joint.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 306: ‘It’s a bookie joint by day and a fag joint by night’.