Meanings
- transitiveTo cause (a competitor) to win a fixed race.
1 more example
"Now," Herbie says, dropping his voice away down low, in case old Cap Duhaine may be around somewhere listening, "it is the third race, and the horse is a horse by the name of Never Despair. It is a boat race," Herbie says. "They are going to shoo in Never Despair. Everything else in the race is a cooler," he says.
1944, Damon Runyon, A Story Goes With It
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