Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A method of betting, as on a horserace, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence.
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- noun A
bet in which thebettor must correctly pick the tworunners who finish first and second, in the correct order.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Combine Friesan Fire, Rachel Alexandra and Pioneerof the Nile in exacta boxes.
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"I thought you said the exacta was a sucker's bet."
Butchers Hill Lippman, Laura 1998
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This year, people are actually doing an 'exacta' where they can bet on the first and second place runners in the race. "
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The 100-win/championship exacta was fairly common in the 1970s when the league championship series were best-of-five.
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Since 1980, only three other teams have produced the exacta of a 100-win regular season and World Series title: the 1984 Detroit Tigers, '86 New York Mets and the' 98 Yankees, the only other team to do it since the playoffs expanded to three series in 1995.
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I found a couple of nags I liked in a race at Hollywood Park, so I boxed them in an exacta, but they finished one-three, so I was out another ten bucks.
Marriage, California Style Jack Swenson 2011
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The exacta has been forecast already, so for trifecta and superfecta players, key the above two with Papa Clem, I Want Revenge and Dunkirk.
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As often as Ryan despairs over the high burden taxpayers face, it often goes unsaid that Ryan's own tax plan is an idiot exacta: It slashes government revenues while simultaneously raising taxes on 90 percent of taxpayers.
Paul Ryan's State Of The Union Rebuttal: The Best They Got? Jason Linkins 2011
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So leave it at that; box Friesan Fire and Pioneerof the Nile in the exacta and be done with it?
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Dinner with speakeasy drinks at 732 Social and brunch at Toast on Market the next day are a winning exacta bet.
Days at the Races 2011
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