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English
Etymology
From bet + -cha. Second sense possibly from bet your rather than bet you.
Pronunciation
Contraction
betcha
- (informal) Pronunciation spelling of bet you.
I betcha any money that that's the case.
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 19:‘nd I’ll betcha Ignatz here’d think the top of a cocoanut tree nineteen times wonderfuller.’
- (pronunciation spelling, informal) Can be sure of it.
- You betcha! (meaning You can bet your bottom dollar!)
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