Point-shaving

Quick meaning: Point-shaving is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of point-shave.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of point-shave.

More Meanings

1. The process of making fine distinctions, especially in regard to behavior that is considered unacceptable versus behavior that is almost but not quite objectionable.
2. Alternative form of point shaving (“a type of match fixing”).

Example Sentences

Between unequivocal perverty behavior and, say, the light fevered brush-up against somebody's arm on a divan lay a multitude of point-shaving.

In point-shaving, the classic form of corruption in college basketball, a player or team controls by how many points it wins so gamblers can collect on bets.

In athletics, this may take the form of point-shaving, college recruiting scandals, performance drugs — all of which are quickly becoming as commonplace as sixand seven-figure salaries for sports stars.

By making it possible to manipulate game scores while preserving the thrills of victory, point-shaving deliberately severed links between the game itself and any broader moral meanings it might have offered, suggesting that the implicated athletes had already abandoned their belief in such connections.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include finger-pointing, nitpicking, angle shooting, nitpickery, fingerpointing, slighting.

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