handicap
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- noun
- /ˈhændɪˌkæp/
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hándicap
- She improved her golf game and reduced her handicap to 10 this season.
Like I love golf, so a handicap, I'm trying to get my handicap lower.
- Like I love golf, so a handicap, I'm trying to get my handicap lower.
- I had two young kids, a golf handicap of four.
Examples
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I'm still a two handicap on a golf course, you know.
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Maybe play a little golf, lower my handicap, and enjoy myself more.
Fiction book (1990) -
- I got my handicap down to 12.
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- I got my handicap down around eight.
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We'll have to give you a handicap, Michael.
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I carry a 2 handicap and welcome technology that can make the game easier.
Blog text (21) -
Let's enter him in the Governor's Handicap in a week.
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I'm a 14 handicap.
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The Orchid Handicap is the most prestigious distaff race in the Florida racing season.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm giving this fellow three strokes a hole handicap... and he's making me putt one-inch putts.
Compounds
- Jargon
A bet that gives a weaker competitor a head start to make the contest more even
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Handicap began with the game hand-in-cap, and in sport it became the idea of giving extra weight or an advantage to make a match fair. That's why a 'handicap' in competition is an advantage or disadvantage given to equalize chances of winning.