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horse-collar
[ hawrs-kol-er ]
noun
- (especially in baseball) a score of zero.
verb (used with object)
- to prevent (an opposing baseball team or batter) from scoring or making a base hit.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of horse-collar1
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Example Sentences
In that, the eye rested, with undisguised delight, upon the grimaces of grinning candidates for the honours of the horse-collar.
I then rolled over, my neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a slight scratch.
In rural places if a carromata driver cannot find a leather horse-collar, he improvises one of banana-leaf.
After the horse-collar I started in the dry-goods trade; but I was burned out.
Would you grin at me, you dog, like a clown gaping through a horse-collar?
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