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point-shave

point-shave verb: to deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.

Verb

point-shave (third-person singular simple present point-shaves, present participle point-shaving, simple past and past participle point-shaved)

  1. To 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)
    • 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

Forms of point-shave

third-person singular presentpoint-shaves
present participlepoint-shaving
past participlepoint-shaved
pastpoint-shaved
alternative formpoint shave

Questions about point-shave

What does point-shave mean?
Point-shave means to deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.
What part of speech is point-shave?
Point-shave is a verb.
What is the past tense of point-shave?
The past tense of point-shave is point-shaved.

Words near point-shave in the dictionary

  1. point-of-viewless
  2. point-of-viewlessness
  3. point-of-viewness
  4. point-projection perspective
  5. point-set topology
  6. point-shave
  7. point-shaved
  8. point-shaves
  9. point-shaving
  10. point-to-point
  11. point-to-pointer

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