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ABSTRACT
Language is a potent vehicle through which ideas, thoughts, opinion, messages and information are generally communicated between groups of people to ensure interpersonal relationship. It is a symbol of people’s identity and means of identifying people’s value system.
This research carries out a semantic analysis of the jargon of sportsbetting: Nairabet as a case study. The study employed semantic as it theoretical frameow rk in the anaylsis of betslips, terms and expressions which were sources of data of the research. The challenge of understanding the meaning of terms and expressions//
of sportsbetting when employed in a conversation by bettor with a non- bettor, necessitated the study in a bid to bring these terms and expressions to limelight. The result shows that some of these terms in sportsbetting are exclusively reserved to sportsbetting also lexical items exists in sportsbetting that are similar to the English language.
