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battery
noun
a concealed device for giving an electric shock to a horse in a race AUSTRALIA, 1936- Once just when a trainer was asking Huck to hit a horse with a battery on the track a DC3 aeroplane flew over. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 97, 1975
- If a horse runs unplaced in three consecutive races its jockey should be permitted to use a battery. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 123, 1975
▶ get your battery charged
to have sex US, 1935- — American Speech, p. 56, February 1947: “Pacific War language”
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