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hippodrome, n.|ˈhɪpədrəʊm|
[a. F. hippodrome (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm., in form ypodrome), or ad. L. hippodromos, Gr. ἱππόδροµος race-course for chariots, f. ἵππο-ς horse + δρόµος race, course.]
1. In Gr. and Rom. Antiq. A course or circus for horse-races and chariot-races. Sometimes used as a high-sounding name for a modern circus.
[1549Thomas Hist. Italie (1561) 36 b (Stanf.), There is a faire grene aunciently called Hippodromus.] 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xvi. 50 Of the noble antiquities..found at Constantinople, are the Hippodrome. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 34 The swift hoofe beats the dustie Hippodrome. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xli. 518 The glorious procession entered the gate of the hippodrome. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iv. viii. (1864) II. 380 Dragged amid the shouts of the rabble round the Hippodrome and then put to death. 1886Pall Mall G. 14 Dec. 6/1 ‘Olympia’ is to be open on Boxing Day, [with]..the famous Hippodrome which has just arrived from Paris.
2. U.S. Sporting slang. A fraudulent race, or other athletic contest, in which it is arranged beforehand which of the contestants shall win. (Cent. Dict.)
3. A theatre used for various stage entertainments.
1899Daily News 10 July 8/1 Hippodromes, as such strictly, have not hitherto been greatly in fashion in London, and they have had but a fitful existence since Mr. Batty started the memorable one known by his name, at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 49/1 London in 1902 had..the ‘Hippodrome’ in Cranbourn Street. 1972Times 8 Apr. 12/5 At the moment, 21 London theatres and halls are listed:..they are the Duke of York's, Garrick, Her Majesty's, Coliseum, Hippodrome, Lyceum, [etc.].
Hence ˈhippodrome v. (U.S. Sporting slang), to conduct races or other contests in which the result is prearranged by collusion (see 2 above). hippoˈdromic, and erron. hippodroˈmatic (confused with hippodramatic: see hippo-) adjs., of or belonging to a hippodrome or circus. ˈhippodroming, vbl. n. hiˈppodromist, a trainer or rider of a horse in a circus.
1840M. W. Shelley in Shelley's Ess. I. Pref. 19 Well versed in nautical, *hippodromic, and other arts. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 18 May 370/3 The ‘Talisman’ is to a painful extent melodramatic and hippodromic.
a1867H. Woodruff Trotting Horse (1868) xxxv. 288 An arrangement was entered into by means of which the former and Lancet travelled together, to trot for purses and divide the profits. It was a new sort of thing, and was..called ‘*Hippodroming’. 1946Chicago Tribune 1 Feb. (Grafic Mag.) 13/1 Cynics argue there is a great deal of hippodroming [in ice hockey].
1886Daily News 14 Dec. 3/1 The *hippodromists confess that they have to get their clever ponies from Scotland and Wales. |