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starting gate
noun
- any of various types of movable barriers for lining up and giving an equal start to the entries in a horse or dog race.
starting gate
noun
- a movable barrier so placed on the starting line of a racecourse that the raising of it releases all the contestants simultaneously
- the US name for starting stalls
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Word History and Origins
Origin of starting gate1
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Example Sentences
In short, I feel put on the spot, and come up lame right out of the starting-gate.
Kerrey hasn't exactly blasted his way out of the starting gate.
Our seats afforded a fine view of the 20 3-year-olds breaking from the starting gate.
Through a maze of heat, a half-mile distant, at the starting-gate, little spots of color moved in impatient circles.
I patted Tapwater's flank, and so help me Newton, I think that one gentle tap pushed the colt half way to the starting gate!
Then, amid a murmur of excitement, the starting-gate went up, and the horses were off.
He drilled every last one of his two-year-olds till the starting gate was no more to them than so much steel and wood and webbing.
So, perfectly calm and very much bored, he danced to the starting-gate on the chestnut filly.
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