false-start

false start

 
noun
1.
Sports. a premature start by one or more of the contestants, as in a swimming or track event, necessitating calling the field back to start again.
2.
a failure to begin an undertaking successfully.
Origin:
1805–15

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false-start

   [fawls-stahrt]
verb (used without object) Sports.
to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to begin a race.
Origin:
1805–15
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