Boat race

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A race between rowing crews.

    "The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is held on the Thames every year."

  2. 2
    a race between people rowing or driving boats wordnet
  3. 3
    The face. Cockney, slang
  4. 4
    A fixed horse race, with a specific horse arranged to win in advance. slang

    ""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."

  5. 5
    A contest in which one competitor boat-races the other(s) US, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of boat-race. alt-of, alternative

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