point-shave

present singular third person point-shaves · participle present point-shaving · participle past point-shaved · past point-shaved · alternative point shave

1. gamblingTo deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.

   You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games.

   1972, Public Hearing Before Gambling Study Commission, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   2 more examples

   He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season.

   1987, Richard Edward Lapchick, Robert Malekoff, On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-athlete, page 56

   Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995.

   2003, Nevada Law Journal - Volume 4, page 323