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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(US, sports, informal) to defeat by a wide margin, especially after establishing and sustaining an early lead.
On Friday night, the Golden State Warriors boat raced the Utah Jazz by a score of 127-86. ... The game was decided so early that Steph Curry didn’t even play in the fourth quarter.
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Boat-race means (US, sports, informal) to defeat by a wide margin, especially after establishing and sustaining an early lead.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On Friday night, the Golden State Warriors boat raced the Utah Jazz by a score of 127-86. ... The game was decided so early that Steph Curry didn’t even play in the fourth quarter.
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