单词 | pinhook |
释义 | pinhookv. Originally U.S. regional (south Midland). Now chiefly Horse Racing. transitive. To buy (a commodity, originally tobacco) cheaply with the expectation of selling it later for a profit. Now: spec. to buy a very young racehorse cheaply for this purpose. Also intransitive. Cf. pinhooking n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > buy up (goods) for resale or monopoly engrossa1400 forestall14.. grossc1440 regrate1444 badge1552 to engross the market1804 pinhook1885 1885 Landmark (Statesville, N. Carolina) 27 Mar. He had pinhooked a part of a planter's crop, paying him for it thirty odd dollars. 1944 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 68 Pin-hook, to buy privately, usually small crops and at bargain prices, tobacco in the barn or at the warehouse. 1980 A. Banks First-Person Amer. 142 That was when speculators used to pinhook by buying right in the fields. 2003 Racing Post (Nexis) 20 Oct. 24 Every year the staff are gifted with a horse to pinhook. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : pin-hookn.adj. < v.1885 see also |
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