Rivalship
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Rivalry. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness."
- 2 A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship. slang
"it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so"
Synonyms
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More examples"Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness."
Etymology
From rival + -ship.
From rival + ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).
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