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- verb baseball Present participle of
hippodrome .; Staging games to suit gamblers, especiallybaseball .
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Examples
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The first proven incident of "hippodroming," as it was called in the nineteenth century, occurred in 1865 when the New York Mutuals lost to the Brooklyn Eckfords in the game they should have won.
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No "hippodroming" here: stripped to the skin, the muscles on their brown bodies standing out in irregular knots, they fling one another about in the liveliest manner.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
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Amid charges of hippodroming the past two games, this three-game playoff series will be decided tomorrow night in Palm Beach.
Bleed Cubbie Blue 2008
chained_bear commented on the word hippodroming
"... once all four of the Savage all-stars broke stride in the same race, creating what one paper called 'a farcical effect'; on another occasion Hersey became ill in mid-race and vomited from the sulky. With Dan out of the spotlight, the point of all the hippodroming seemed lost."
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 322
October 28, 2008