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post
noun
an autopsy US, 1942
From the more formal “post mortem”.- “ What’s a post? A post mortem?” “Yeah, an autopsy. They have to determine the cause of death. Even when a man’s been shot four times.” — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 104, 1981
▶ left at the post
(of a horse in a race) to lose badly AUSTRALIA- I saw Moore in Sydney before he sailed, and he assured me that he lost his head entirely when Quiver was left at the post, but that he had no intention of doing anything crooked. — Nat Gould, On and Off the Turf, p. 29, 1895
- The Old Huck, was given a mount of a “rogue” at Newcastle. It had been left at the post and had run off at the turn in every race. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 23, 1975
- Jim backed his horse well but it got left at the post, so when he came back to the pub after the races the locals chiaked him. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 104, 1975
- It was a memorable event as no fewer than five horses were left at the post. — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 31, 1984
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