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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:

1. compete in a horse raceplay

  Familiarity information: HORSE-RACE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORSE-RACE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Compete in a horse race

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "horse-race" is one way to...):

race; run (compete in a race)

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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