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false start

 
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–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

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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false start  
n.  

  1. An illegal racing start in which one of the competitors begins moving before the starting signal.

  2. A misguided or unsuccessful attempt to begin something.

false'-start' (fôls'stärt') v.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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