rundown

See also: run-down and run down

English

rundown (plural rundowns)

(chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation.
Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?
(gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.
- 1946, Lancer, page 15:
  Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]
- 1960, American Trial Lawyers Association, Convention Proceedings, page 455:
  I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.
(baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.
A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.
- 2020 May 20, “Fleet News: LNER sends more '91s' off-lease”, in Rail, page 22:
  The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,

a rough outline

baseball: defensive play

rundown (not comparable)

run-down — see run-down