单词 | hippodroming |
释义 | hippodromingn. U.S. Sport. slang. Chieflyhistorical in later use. The action or practice of manipulating or prearranging the outcome of a sporting contest. Cf. hippodrome n. 4, hippodrome v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > foul play foul play1553 foul1849 hippodroming1864 fouling1866 roughing1866 misplay1867 obstruction1923 sandbagging1940 no-throw1959 1864 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 16 Jan. So long as I keep stock horses..I shall never shrink from a fair trial of their merits.., nor do I believe that I can ever be drawn into any hippodroming for the public money. 1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxxv. 288 An arrangement was entered into by means of which the former and Lancet travelled together, to trot for purses and divide the profits. It was a new sort of thing, and was..called ‘Hippodroming’. 1946 Chicago Tribune 1 Feb. (Grafic Mag.) 13/1 Cynics argue there is a great deal of hippodroming [in ice hockey]. 2016 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 25 Oct. b18 The day might have come real close to hippodroming—the term from the old exhibition days of barnstorming Indy car drivers, who put on a show after mapping out who would finish where in advance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864 |
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