| 单词 | starting-price job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarting-price job e. Betting. A commission to back a racehorse; a horse on which such bets are placed, a horse worth backing. Chiefly in starting-price job, SP job. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > commission to back horse job1889 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > horse on which bets are placed job1889 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > defined by betting odds (miscellaneous) hot favourite1864 job1889 springer1922 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 502/1 ‘He has got the job’, he has the putting on of the stable money. 1907 Favourite 16 Nov. 9/2 Elfin Revel was a big starting-price job for the Croxteth Plate. 1911 Turf 10 Oct. 1/1 I am not now referring to s.p. jobs. 1965 F. J. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 107 It's an SP job,..they'll back it off the course. 1995 Racing Post 14 July 37 (advt.) Send me just £10 and I'll send you the name of the horse by return post and if it fails to win I'll send you the names of at least three job horses each month for the next year. 2006 Irish Independent (Nexis) 7 Oct. He was off trying to undo an SP job... An SP job is a ‘starting price job’. A horse is backed in the betting shops in small amounts so as not to attract attention, thereby keeping the price down. < as lemmas |
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