point shaving

noun

A type of match fixing, motivated by gambling, where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread.

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Meanings

nounpoint shaving (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehobbiesA type of match fixing, motivated by gambling, where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread.

    Point shaving had a long and distinguished history at LIU.

    1999, Charles Rosen, Scandals of '51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball, page 32
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    The Fresno Bee picked up on it and said there was point shaving.

    2005, Jerry Tarkanian, Runnin' Rebel, page 210

    Ultimately the findings were given to federal authorities, and the government launched its own extended inquiry into point shaving at Northwestern.

    2008, Stanley H. Teitelbaum, Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols, page 68
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of point shave
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APA

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Chicago

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