"dead 'un" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dead 'uns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead 'un (plural dead 'uns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Horse racing",
          "orig": "en:Horse racing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, The Oriental Sporting Magazine (volume 4, page 141)",
          "text": "If this is the way lotteries are to be conducted, the unfortunate backers are worse off than when they confide themselves to the tender mercies of the \"howling dervishes\" of the \"ring at home,\" who, if they do occasionally serve up a \"dead 'un\" rather \"warm\", are yet amenable to racing law, which one can depend on being rightly administered by competent people."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Thormanby, Kings of the Turf (page 33)",
          "text": "Jerry was most carefully watched and guarded, nobbling seemed impossible, yet still the bookies kept laying against the horse as if he were a \"dead 'un.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A horse that will not run or will not try in a race, and against which money may be safely wagered."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead_'un-en-noun-cZwS9no3",
      "links": [
        [
          "horse racing",
          "horse racing"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ],
        [
          "against",
          "against"
        ],
        [
          "wager",
          "wager"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horse racing, slang, archaic) A horse that will not run or will not try in a race, and against which money may be safely wagered."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stiff 'un"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "horse-racing",
        "horseracing",
        "horses",
        "lifestyle",
        "pets",
        "racing",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead 'un"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dead 'uns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dead 'un (plural dead 'uns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Horse racing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, The Oriental Sporting Magazine (volume 4, page 141)",
          "text": "If this is the way lotteries are to be conducted, the unfortunate backers are worse off than when they confide themselves to the tender mercies of the \"howling dervishes\" of the \"ring at home,\" who, if they do occasionally serve up a \"dead 'un\" rather \"warm\", are yet amenable to racing law, which one can depend on being rightly administered by competent people."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Thormanby, Kings of the Turf (page 33)",
          "text": "Jerry was most carefully watched and guarded, nobbling seemed impossible, yet still the bookies kept laying against the horse as if he were a \"dead 'un.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A horse that will not run or will not try in a race, and against which money may be safely wagered."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "horse racing",
          "horse racing"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race"
        ],
        [
          "against",
          "against"
        ],
        [
          "wager",
          "wager"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horse racing, slang, archaic) A horse that will not run or will not try in a race, and against which money may be safely wagered."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stiff 'un"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "horse-racing",
        "horseracing",
        "horses",
        "lifestyle",
        "pets",
        "racing",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead 'un"
}