point-shave
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.
Example Sentences
- "You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games."
- "He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season."
- "Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995."