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单词 horse racer
释义

horse racern.

Etymology: < horse race n. + -er suffix1, after race, racer.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-ˌracer.
1. One who keeps horses for racing; one who rides horses in races, a jockey.
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c1618 J. Bruen in W. Hinde Life (1641) xi. 38 A good rule for our horse-racers, rank riders, and hot-spurre hunters.
1733 Weekly Reg. 8 Dec. Song-singers, horse-racers, valets-de-chambre.
1888 Athenæum 22 Sept. 381/1 The first Lord Godolphin was a horse-racer as well as gambler undoubtedly.
2. U.S. (See quot. 1833)
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1833 M. Brooks Zòphiel v. (note) The ring necked serpent... From the extreme swiftness of its movements, it received from the English settlers the name of horse-racer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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