ante-postadj.
/ˌantᵻˈpəʊst/, U.S. /ˈæntəˌpoʊst/ Gambling.
Designating, relating to, or belonging to betting which takes place well in advance of an event and usually offers higher odds.
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ante-post1865
off-track1931
off-the-course1951
off-course1960
on-course1964
on-track1964
1865 Bell's Life in London 11 Nov. 4/3 We have so often had occasion to allude to the decline and fall of ante-post betting and the causes thereof that we need not trouble our readers farther on the subject.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 236/1 Betting is of two kinds: ‘post’, when wagering does not begin until the numbers of the runners are hoisted on the board; and ‘ante-post’, when wagering opens weeks or months before the event.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiii. 153 This ante-post betting is a mistake, an error, and a mug's game.
1975 New Scientist 3 Apr. 39/2 I astutely riposted that I'd have a fiver on at the ante-post odds offered.
2004 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 27 Nov. 90/2 Timmy Murphy..takes the mount of ante-post favourite Celestial Gold in today's renewal of the big Newbury handicap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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