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HORSE-RACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horse-race mean?
• HORSE-RACE (verb)
The verb HORSE-RACE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HORSE-RACE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compete in a horse race
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "horse-race" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "horse-race"):
jockey (ride a racehorse as a professional jockey)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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