Point-shave
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Point-shave is a verb meaning (sports, gambling) To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.
Meaning
(sports, gambling) To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.
Example Sentences
You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games.
He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season.
Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995.
Word Forms
- point-shaves
- point-shaving
- point-shaved
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include throw, angle-shoot, pitch, tank, shithouse, stakehorse.
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