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boat race
noun- a fixed horse race or other competition US, 1917
- — Walter Steigleman, Horseracing, p. 271, 1947
- I bet crooked horse races–“boat races” we called them. My two detectives at the track would hear of a fix. They’d telephone me. I’d say get down a hundred for me. I made about $50,000 on “boat races” when I was chief of detectives. — San Francisco News, p. 40, 16 November 1950
- It was claimed then, reported United Press, that Berry engineered two “boat races” on Feb. 7–8. — San Francisco News, 26 November 1952
- — Current Slang, p. 4, Summer 1969
- the face UK
Rhyming slang, probably in use from the late 1940s. Often shortened to “boat”. - A big bandage round his thumb and a big smile on his boat race. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 29, 1958
- [A] gemini same as me, with a boat-race that can slip straight from looking like an angel’s to a snake’s. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
- Meanwhile take a butcher’s at this lot and keep a penny a mile on your boat race! — The Sweeney, p. 7, 1976
- [“]Was she as dirty as she looked?” “Can’t really remember. Plenty of Harry [semen] on the boat, though.” — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 89, 1997
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