hippodromen.

Brit.

/ˈhɪpədrəʊm/, U.S.

/ˈhɪpəˌdroʊm/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s 1800s– hippodromus (in sense 1), 1800s– hippodromos.

β. 1500s–1600s hyppodrome, 1500s– hippodrome, 1600s hipodrome, 1600s hypodrome, 1600s hyppodrom, 1600s–1700s hippodrom.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French hippodrome; Latin hippodromos.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French hippodrome (13th cent. in Old French in an isolated attestation as ypodrome , subsequently from 1534), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin hippodromos, hippodromus < ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος racecourse for chariots < ἱππο- hippo- comb. form + δρόμος race, course (see -drome comb. form).

1. Ancient Greek History and Roman History. A course or circuit for horse and chariot races.

ΚΠ

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 36^v Betwene this Testacchio and the hill Auentine is a faire grene aunciently called Hippodromus.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xvi. 50 The Hippodrome [Fr. l'Hippodrome],..which is the place where in times past the Emperours made the horses to run for the pleasure & delectation of the people.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 The swift hoofe beats the dustie Hippodrome.

1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. iii. vi. 45 The Horse-race was added, and the running with Chariots, which was performed in a Hippodromus, called Stadium.

1697 J. Evelyn Disc. Medals iii. 49 We behold with Admiration, their stupendious Amphitheatres, Theatres, Forums,..Hippodroms, Mausolea, and Sepulchres.

1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. vii. 234 They put us in mind of the Hippodrom, or Running-place for Horses.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 518 The glorious procession entered the gate of the hippodrome.

1811 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XVIII. at Hippodrome We have some vestiges in England of the hippodromus, in which the ancient inhabitants of this country performed their races.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 177 Dragged, amid the shouts of the rabble, round the hippodrome, and then put to death.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 16 426 Restored portions of the Hippodromus on the Palatine (ca. 203 A.D.).

1969 K. Clark Civilisation v. 117 The point at which the chariots turned in their races round the hippodrome.

2004 US News & World Rep. 9 Aug. 45/2 Forty teams with brightly painted chariots crowded the track, known as the hippodrome.

2. A racecourse or racetrack resembling or likened to an ancient hippodrome.In later use chiefly in non-English-speaking regions or contexts.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun]

careera1586

lists1601

hippodrome1750

horse-course1751

racecourse1764

racetrack1830

flat1870

raceway1910

1750 J. B. Let. 14 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1762) XIII. 235 I have planted an hippodrome.., consisting of five walks; the central of which is a horse-course, and three rounds make exactly a mile.

1838 Racing Cal. 510 The additional horses for the handicap to be named within an hour after the Cup race, at the Weighing-house, Saddling-paddock, Hippodrome.

1858 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports 375 An attempt was made to establish race meetings..within two miles of the metropolis... But unfortunately, the projectors overlooked one circumstance at once fatal to the Hippodrome.

1901 McClure's Mag. Nov. 24/2 He sees before him the flags and stands of the hippodrome at Tradderenaben, in the outskirts of Berlin... The cries of 50,000 people drown all the noises of his motor.

1936 E. A. Powell Aerial Odyssey xii. 178 There is a fine club, a hippodrome with flat and steeplechase courses.

2006 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 Apr. c3/3 Harness racing's first action is 12.15 p.m. from Montreal's Hippodrome.

3. A theatre or arena for performances featuring trained horses and displays of horsemanship; now historical. Hence: a theatre in which any type of popular entertainment is staged. Sometimes also: the company involved in this, or the show itself.Often with the and capital initial in the names of specific venues.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun]

houseOE

playhouseOE

playing-placea1375

showplace1560

show hall1562

theatre?1577

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stage-house1638

show house1674

saloon1747

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1811 Morning Chron. 22 Apr. (title of poem) On the New Hippodrome in Covent-Garden.

1849 Times 27 Dec. 5/5 Amongst the ladies in the circle was Mademoiselle Angele, from the Hippodrome, Paris, being her first appearance in London.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 6/1 ‘Olympia’ is to be open on Boxing Day, [with]..the famous Hippodrome which has just arrived from Paris.

1899 Daily 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.

1944 A. Alington Rosie Todmarsh vii. 121 How Joe had rolled about in his seat in his enjoyment of Harry Tate at the Hippodrome!

1998 Independent (Nexis) 7 Aug. When the band was playing at Sherry's Ballroom in Brighton in 1938, Fats Waller was appearing at the local Hippodrome.

4. U.S. slang. A race or other sporting competition which has been manipulated, staged, or fixed so the outcome is known to the competitors beforehand. Now historical and rare.Earliest in attributive use: cf. Compounds.Cf. slightly earlier hippodrome v., hippodroming n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race

quarter-mile1611

dead1635

diaulos1706

quarter1779

dead heat1796

match race1804

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team race1869

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relay race1878

walk-away1879

title race1905

tortoise race1913

procession1937

stage1943

pace1968

prologue1973

1867 Boston Post 16 Mar. 1/6 He was strictly honest with all with whom he had dealings, and it was never said of him that he ever drove a ‘hippodrome’ race.

1872 Boston Daily Globe 11 July 5/6 Whatever wonderful performance Goldsmith Maid might..make would go on the record without a quibble about this affair being a hippodrome.

1910 Sporting News 20 Oct. 4/2 The games in question were hippodromes,..in which each team endeavoured to excel the other in permitting enormous totals of base hits to be piled up.

1938 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 27 Feb. (Sports section) 2/5 Officially, it was a match for the ‘world's heavyweight wrestling title’... Actually, it was a hippodrome between the vice-president of the Chicago Bears football team and one of his employees.

2014 R. Huhn Chalmers Race 238 He intended..to clear all involved in the St. Louis hippodrome [sc. a contested baseball game of 1901] of any wrongdoing.

Compounds

General attributive.In quot. 1658 apparently designating urns placed within the hippodrome in ancient Rome to resound the noise of the spectators.

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1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v Theatrical vessels, and great Hippodrome Urnes in Rome.

1838 Times 3 July 1 Horses for the stakes to be named..at the Hippodrome saddling paddock.

1867 Boston Post 16 Mar. 1/6 He was strictly honest with all with whom he had dealings, and it was never said of him that he ever drove a ‘hippodrome’ race.

1868 H. Chadwick Game of Baseball 86 From betting large sums on match-games of ball, to the gambling frauds termed ‘Hippodrome tactics’, the step is but slight.

1906 L. Stanfield (title of song) All dressed up like a hippodrome horse.

1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) II. 222/1 The Hippodrome programme is principally made up of equestrian, gymnastic, and menagerie ‘turns’.

1939 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) i. 4 It would be an additional honour if you could ask some of the other players on the Hippodrome bill to sign it, such as Lucan & McShane, and the other famous artistes.

2006 S. Gruen Water for Elephants xv. 200 After all the regular seats sell out, roustabouts spread straw on the hippodrome track for the overflow crowd to sit on.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hippodromev.

Brit.

/ˈhɪpədrəʊm/, U.S.

/ˈhɪpəˌdroʊm/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hippodrome n.

Etymology: < hippodrome n. Compare slightly earlier hippodroming n.

U.S. Sport. slang. Now rare.

transitive (chiefly in passive). To refrain from winning (a race, fight, etc.) deliberately; to fake, stage, or manipulate (a contest); to fix (an event) so the outcome is known to the competitors in advance. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. hippodrome n. 4.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe

meedOE

underorna1325

corrump1387

forbuy1393

hirec1400

wage1461

fee1487

under-arearc1503

bribe1528

grease1528

money1528

corrupt1548

budc1565

to feed with money1567

to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580

sweeten1594

to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598

over-bribe1619

to buy off1629

palter1641

to take off1646

buy1652

overmoneya1661

bub1684

to speak to ——1687

to tickle in the palm1694

daub1699

overbuy1710

touch1752

palm1767

to get at ——1780

fix1790

subsidize1793

sop1837

to buy over1848

backsheesh1850

nobble1856

square1859

hippodrome1866

see1867

boodleize1883

boodle1886

to get to ——1901

reach1906

straighten1923

lubricate1928

to keep (someone) sweet1939

sling1939

to pay off1942

bung1950

1866 Wilkes' Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 372/2 Warne was evidently hippodroming the last heat.

1893 Wallace's Monthly Jan. 1058/2 After the races had been trotted,..they hippodromed over the country. It was a tacit understanding with Eoff that Flora should win every race.

1912 Motorcycle Illustr. 19 Sept. 46/1 The half-mile track at St. Thomas was not up to much, but the riders made the most of it and no races were hippodromed.

1921 E. Hemingway in Toronto Star 25 June 6/4 Dempsey hippodromed for a while and then abandoned friendship and speedily slugged Miske into unconsciousness.

1995 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 12 May 9/2 Those big athletes are so strong they'd maim, maybe even kill one another if their performances weren't hippodromed.

2004 D. Radbruch Dirt Track Auto Racing 293 The smaller fairs were the backbone of the IMCA schedule and these were routinely hippodromed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hippodrome
释义	hippodromen. Brit. /ˈhɪpədrəʊm/, U.S. /ˈhɪpəˌdroʊm/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s 1800s– hippodromus (in sense 1), 1800s– hippodromos. β. 1500s–1600s hyppodrome, 1500s– hippodrome, 1600s hipodrome, 1600s hypodrome, 1600s hyppodrom, 1600s–1700s hippodrom. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French hippodrome; Latin hippodromos. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French hippodrome (13th cent. in Old French in an isolated attestation as ypodrome , subsequently from 1534), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin hippodromos, hippodromus < ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος racecourse for chariots < ἱππο- hippo- comb. form + δρόμος race, course (see -drome comb. form). 1. Ancient Greek History and Roman History. A course or circuit for horse and chariot races. ΚΠ 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 36^v Betwene this Testacchio and the hill Auentine is a faire grene aunciently called Hippodromus. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xvi. 50 The Hippodrome [Fr. l'Hippodrome],..which is the place where in times past the Emperours made the horses to run for the pleasure & delectation of the people. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 34 The swift hoofe beats the dustie Hippodrome. 1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. iii. vi. 45 The Horse-race was added, and the running with Chariots, which was performed in a Hippodromus, called Stadium. 1697 J. Evelyn Disc. Medals iii. 49 We behold with Admiration, their stupendious Amphitheatres, Theatres, Forums,..Hippodroms, Mausolea, and Sepulchres. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. vii. 234 They put us in mind of the Hippodrom, or Running-place for Horses. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 518 The glorious procession entered the gate of the hippodrome. 1811 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XVIII. at Hippodrome We have some vestiges in England of the hippodromus, in which the ancient inhabitants of this country performed their races. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 177 Dragged, amid the shouts of the rabble, round the hippodrome, and then put to death. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 16 426 Restored portions of the Hippodromus on the Palatine (ca. 203 A.D.). 1969 K. Clark Civilisation v. 117 The point at which the chariots turned in their races round the hippodrome. 2004 US News & World Rep. 9 Aug. 45/2 Forty teams with brightly painted chariots crowded the track, known as the hippodrome. 2. A racecourse or racetrack resembling or likened to an ancient hippodrome.In later use chiefly in non-English-speaking regions or contexts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] careera1586 lists1601 hippodrome1750 horse-course1751 racecourse1764 racetrack1830 flat1870 raceway1910 1750 J. B. Let. 14 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1762) XIII. 235 I have planted an hippodrome.., consisting of five walks; the central of which is a horse-course, and three rounds make exactly a mile. 1838 Racing Cal. 510 The additional horses for the handicap to be named within an hour after the Cup race, at the Weighing-house, Saddling-paddock, Hippodrome. 1858 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports 375 An attempt was made to establish race meetings..within two miles of the metropolis... But unfortunately, the projectors overlooked one circumstance at once fatal to the Hippodrome. 1901 McClure's Mag. Nov. 24/2 He sees before him the flags and stands of the hippodrome at Tradderenaben, in the outskirts of Berlin... The cries of 50,000 people drown all the noises of his motor. 1936 E. A. Powell Aerial Odyssey xii. 178 There is a fine club, a hippodrome with flat and steeplechase courses. 2006 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 Apr. c3/3 Harness racing's first action is 12.15 p.m. from Montreal's Hippodrome. 3. A theatre or arena for performances featuring trained horses and displays of horsemanship; now historical. Hence: a theatre in which any type of popular entertainment is staged. Sometimes also: the company involved in this, or the show itself.Often with the and capital initial in the names of specific venues. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] houseOE playhouseOE playing-placea1375 showplace1560 show hall1562 theatre?1577 theatre-house1578 cockpita1616 stage-house1638 show house1674 saloon1747 theatrum1786 spellkenc1800 hippodrome1811 spell1819 show-box1822 1811 Morning Chron. 22 Apr. (title of poem) On the New Hippodrome in Covent-Garden. 1849 Times 27 Dec. 5/5 Amongst the ladies in the circle was Mademoiselle Angele, from the Hippodrome, Paris, being her first appearance in London. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 6/1 ‘Olympia’ is to be open on Boxing Day, [with]..the famous Hippodrome which has just arrived from Paris. 1899 Daily 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. 1944 A. Alington Rosie Todmarsh vii. 121 How Joe had rolled about in his seat in his enjoyment of Harry Tate at the Hippodrome! 1998 Independent (Nexis) 7 Aug. When the band was playing at Sherry's Ballroom in Brighton in 1938, Fats Waller was appearing at the local Hippodrome. 4. U.S. slang. A race or other sporting competition which has been manipulated, staged, or fixed so the outcome is known to the competitors beforehand. Now historical and rare.Earliest in attributive use: cf. Compounds.Cf. slightly earlier hippodrome v., hippodroming n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race quarter-mile1611 dead1635 diaulos1706 quarter1779 dead heat1796 match race1804 dash1836 sprint race1836 mile1851 road race1852 time trial1857 decider1858 all-ages1864 rough-up1864 hippodrome1867 distance running1868 team race1869 run-off1873 relay race1878 walk-away1879 title race1905 tortoise race1913 procession1937 stage1943 pace1968 prologue1973 1867 Boston Post 16 Mar. 1/6 He was strictly honest with all with whom he had dealings, and it was never said of him that he ever drove a ‘hippodrome’ race. 1872 Boston Daily Globe 11 July 5/6 Whatever wonderful performance Goldsmith Maid might..make would go on the record without a quibble about this affair being a hippodrome. 1910 Sporting News 20 Oct. 4/2 The games in question were hippodromes,..in which each team endeavoured to excel the other in permitting enormous totals of base hits to be piled up. 1938 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Madison, Wisconsin) 27 Feb. (Sports section) 2/5 Officially, it was a match for the ‘world's heavyweight wrestling title’... Actually, it was a hippodrome between the vice-president of the Chicago Bears football team and one of his employees. 2014 R. Huhn Chalmers Race 238 He intended..to clear all involved in the St. Louis hippodrome [sc. a contested baseball game of 1901] of any wrongdoing. Compounds General attributive.In quot. 1658 apparently designating urns placed within the hippodrome in ancient Rome to resound the noise of the spectators. ΚΠ 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v Theatrical vessels, and great Hippodrome Urnes in Rome. 1838 Times 3 July 1 Horses for the stakes to be named..at the Hippodrome saddling paddock. 1867 Boston Post 16 Mar. 1/6 He was strictly honest with all with whom he had dealings, and it was never said of him that he ever drove a ‘hippodrome’ race. 1868 H. Chadwick Game of Baseball 86 From betting large sums on match-games of ball, to the gambling frauds termed ‘Hippodrome tactics’, the step is but slight. 1906 L. Stanfield (title of song) All dressed up like a hippodrome horse. 1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) II. 222/1 The Hippodrome programme is principally made up of equestrian, gymnastic, and menagerie ‘turns’. 1939 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) i. 4 It would be an additional honour if you could ask some of the other players on the Hippodrome bill to sign it, such as Lucan & McShane, and the other famous artistes. 2006 S. Gruen Water for Elephants xv. 200 After all the regular seats sell out, roustabouts spread straw on the hippodrome track for the overflow crowd to sit on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hippodromev. Brit. /ˈhɪpədrəʊm/, U.S. /ˈhɪpəˌdroʊm/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: hippodrome n. Etymology: < hippodrome n. Compare slightly earlier hippodroming n. U.S. Sport. slang. Now rare. transitive (chiefly in passive). To refrain from winning (a race, fight, etc.) deliberately; to fake, stage, or manipulate (a contest); to fix (an event) so the outcome is known to the competitors in advance. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. hippodrome n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe meedOE underorna1325 corrump1387 forbuy1393 hirec1400 wage1461 fee1487 under-arearc1503 bribe1528 grease1528 money1528 corrupt1548 budc1565 to feed with money1567 to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580 sweeten1594 to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598 over-bribe1619 to buy off1629 palter1641 to take off1646 buy1652 overmoneya1661 bub1684 to speak to ——1687 to tickle in the palm1694 daub1699 overbuy1710 touch1752 palm1767 to get at ——1780 fix1790 subsidize1793 sop1837 to buy over1848 backsheesh1850 nobble1856 square1859 hippodrome1866 see1867 boodleize1883 boodle1886 to get to ——1901 reach1906 straighten1923 lubricate1928 to keep (someone) sweet1939 sling1939 to pay off1942 bung1950 1866 Wilkes' Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 11 Aug. 372/2 Warne was evidently hippodroming the last heat. 1893 Wallace's Monthly Jan. 1058/2 After the races had been trotted,..they hippodromed over the country. It was a tacit understanding with Eoff that Flora should win every race. 1912 Motorcycle Illustr. 19 Sept. 46/1 The half-mile track at St. Thomas was not up to much, but the riders made the most of it and no races were hippodromed. 1921 E. Hemingway in Toronto Star 25 June 6/4 Dempsey hippodromed for a while and then abandoned friendship and speedily slugged Miske into unconsciousness. 1995 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 12 May 9/2 Those big athletes are so strong they'd maim, maybe even kill one another if their performances weren't hippodromed. 2004 D. Radbruch Dirt Track Auto Racing 293 The smaller fairs were the backbone of the IMCA schedule and these were routinely hippodromed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549v.1866
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