point-shaving
noun
point-shav·ing ˈpoint-ˌshā-viŋ 
often attributive
: an attempt (as by a member of the team favored to win) to influence the final score of a game so that the predicted winner wins by less than the point spread
Word History
First Known Use
1975, in the meaning defined above
- front vault
- front wall
- front yard
- front yards
- front-bencher
- front-burner
- front-connected switch
- front-end
- front-end load
- front-end loader
- front-fanged
- front-foot rule
- front-load
- front-loaded
- front-loading
- front-loads
- front-page
- front-page news
- front-paged
- front-pages
- front-paging
- front-porch campaign
- front-rank
- front-runner
- front-wheel