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last lap
last lap n. [ < last adj. + lap n.3 5b] the final circuit of a track, course, etc., to be completed in a race; (hence) the final stage of a journey, action, or enterprise.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track > parts of
run-in1799
quarter-stretch1830
home run1833
hurdle1833
back stretch1839
home stretch1841
straight1846
last lap1848
straightaway1878
home straight1880
stretch1895
back-straight1905
the wall1974
1848 Bell's Life in London 5 Nov. 7/3 The fifth round, or remaining distance to make up the five miles, would be 70 short of a last lap to finish.
1864 London Society Apr. 383/2 When it came to the last ‘lap’—that is the professional term—the race began.
1909 J. M. Hanson Conquest of Missouri xxxviii. 306 At Fort Stevenson..she [sc. a boat] halted once more, and again leaving a garrison convulsed with unsatisfied anxiety, she leaped out on the last lap.
1913 Princeton Alumni Weekly 26 Mar. 475/1 With the close of the brief spring recess on the 25th, the University has entered upon the last lap of the college year.
1921 J. B. Newman Beginners' Mod. Hist. (1922) iv. x. 75 This war may be called the ‘last lap’ in the great struggle of the older period.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 227 Bang of the lastlap bell spurred the halfmile wheelmen to their sprint.
1958 W. Taylour Mycenean Pottery in Italy & Adjacent Areas vii. 186 An alternative means of communication may have been via the Adriatic.., the last lap of the journey being made overland.
1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 91/1 (advt.) This disc marks the beginning of the last lap of the project.
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