schneidn.
/ˈʃnʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈʃnaɪd/ 1. Cards. In gin rummy: a result where a player loses the game having scored no points. Cf. schneider n.1 2b.
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1946 G. Kanin Born Yesterday i. 67 Where do you get the schneid?
1967 G. T. Simon Big Bands 222 She..was a master at the game [sc. gin rummy], as I found out after being handed something like a dozen consecutive schneids.
2014 E. F. Lindenblatt Stop at Red Apple lii. 163 I fractured him in ping-pong and got him on a triple schneid in gin.
2. North American colloquial (chiefly in sporting contexts). A streak of bad luck. Usually in off the schneid, on the schneid.
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1960 Pampa (Texas) Daily News 30 Aug. 8/6 Tobian..got the U.S. Olympians off the schneid Monday when he won the 3-meter springboard dive.
1983 Sports Illustr. 24 Oct. Schmidt..finally broke his 0 for 13 schneid in the bottom of the fourth with a brokenbat single.
1995 Denver Post 7 May b2/4 There's nothin' quite like the final year of a contract to get a guy off the schneid.
1999 Los Angeles Times 26 Oct. Once you're on the schneid as a retailer, it's hard to get back on track.
2015 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 13 Dec. (Herald-Times ed.) b4/5 The Cougars didn't score in the third until Laffoon got them off the schneid with a steal and layup at the 2:55 mark.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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