"point shave" meaning in All languages combined

See point shave on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: point shaves [present, singular, third-person], point shaving [participle, present], point shaved [participle, past], point shaved [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} point shave (third-person singular simple present point shaves, present participle point shaving, simple past and past participle point shaved)
  1. Alternative form of point-shave Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: point-shave
    Sense id: en-point_shave-en-verb-mZWKkrL7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2000, Robert A. Mertzman, Voices in Sports and Society, page 287:",
          "text": "The athlete at Northwestern who point shaved had been involved with a student bookmaker and was over $ 7,000 in debt.",
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          "ref": "2000, Robert A. Mertzman, Voices in Sports and Society, page 287:",
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          "ref": "2006, The American Economic Review - Volume 96, page 282:",
          "text": "A more complete analysis would take account of the possibilities that many of those point shaving would have otherwise beaten the spread by a large margin; that some of those agreeing to point shave will accidentally cover the spread; and that yet others will shave too vigorously, losing the game.",
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          "text": "A more complete analysis would take account of the possibilities that many of those point shaving would have otherwise beaten the spread by a large margin; that some of those agreeing to point shave will accidentally cover the spread; and that yet others will shave too vigorously, losing the game.",
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