the pools | meaning of the pools in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe poolsthe poolsDGGa system in Britain in which people try to win money each week by guessing the results of football games  I do the pools sometimes.  Dad won £40 on the pools. → poolExamples from the Corpusdo the pools• I do the pools sometimes, an' all.• Gamblers who find it infra-dig to do the pools, and now have a national lottery to look forward to.