antepost

A1N1T1E1P3O1S1T1

adjective

Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

UncommonScrabble 10
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectiveantepost (not comparable)

alternative ante-post

  1. not comparablegamblingBeing a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

Origin

From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

PattesonpostnateSteptoan
Cite this entry
APA

antepost. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antepost

MLA

“antepost.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antepost. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antepost,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antepost.

Source: antepost on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.