| 单词 | handicapper |
| 释义 | handicapper|ˈhændɪkæpə(r)|
[f. prec. vb.]
a. One who handicaps; spec. the public official who decrees what weights the different horses are to carry in a handicap.
1754[see handicap n. 2 a]. 1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock xii. 199 Handicappers do well in a large handicap if they get two-fifths of the horses to accept, and a third of the acceptances to the post. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing II. xlii. 202 You are bad handicappers, ladies! 1862Times 2 Jan., An honest handicapper is in the hands of the public runners of horses and utterly at their mercy, and the runners of horses are as completely at the mercy of the dishonest handicapper. 1875J. D. Heath Croquet Player 91 Referee (and handicapper, when necessary) should be appointed, to superintend the various games, and to settle disputes.
b. A horse running in a handicap race.
1895Starting Price 23 Mar. 1/3 Barbary.—A second⁓rate handicapper, but bad-tempered and disappointing. 1955Times 25 Aug. 2/6 That fine handicapper Durante put up a splendid performance under 9 st. 7 lb. in coming away in the last two furlongs to beat Naval Patrol by five lengths. |
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