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racecard

racecard is the alternative form of race card.

Meaning of race card

Noun

race card (plural race cards)

  1. (derogatory, often) The invocation of a person's race in order to gain sympathy or an advantage.
    • to play the race card
  2. A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.

See all 3 meanings of race card

Forms of racecard

pluralracecards

Origin of racecard

From race + card.

Questions about racecard

What is racecard the alternative form of?
Racecard is the alternative form of race card.

Words near racecard in the dictionary

  1. raceblindness
  2. racebook
  3. racebooks
  4. racecadotril
  5. racecar
  6. racecard
  7. racecards
  8. racecars
  9. racecation
  10. racecations
  11. racecourse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: racecard (page history and authors); race card (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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