boat race
English
editNoun
editboat race (plural boat races)
- A race between rowing crews.
- Coordinate term: regatta
- The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is held on the Thames every year.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The face.
- (gambling, slang) A fixed horse race, with a specific horse arranged to win in advance.
- 1944, Damon Runyon, “A Story Goes With It”, in Stories à la Carte:
- "Now," Herbie says, dropping his voice away down low, in case old Cap Duhaine may be around somewhere listening, "it is the third race, and the horse is a horse by the name of Never Despair. It is a boat race," Herbie says. "They are going to shoo in Never Despair. Everything else in the race is a cooler," he says.
- (US, sports, slang) A contest in which one competitor boat-races the other(s)
Verb
editboat race (third-person singular simple present boat races, present participle boat racing, simple past and past participle boat raced)
- Alternative spelling of boat-race
References
edit- “boat race”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.