Antepost
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens. not-comparable
Etymology
From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.
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