post the coal

verb

To lay money on a contest.

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Meanings

verbpost the coal (third-person singular simple present posts the coal, present participle posting the coal, simple past and past participle posted the coal)

present singular third person posts the coal · participle present posting the coal · participle past posted the coal · past posted the coal

  1. obsoleteslanggamblingTo lay money on a contest.

    Upon Jagellon they who post the coal / Back one who stands, by race, head of the Pole.

    1877, Punch/The London Charivari, volume LXXII, page 244
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