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antepost

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
an-tepost
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

Etymology

From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

ante-post (alternative)

Questions

What does antepost mean?
Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.
Where does antepost come from?
From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

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