perfecta
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- noun
- /pərˈfɛktə/
- Jargon
- But I know I never had a bigger score at the greyhounds than the night the Bandit dog came in on the front end of a $300 perfecta, and we ended up, the pair of us, howling at the moon and stacking $100 bills at 4:00 A.M. on the beach outside the La Concha Hotel.
Examples
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She's going to mess up my Perfecta.
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The perfecta paid about $300 on a two-dollar bet.
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Or I might tie him up in the perfecta with some other dog I liked.
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To win a perfecta, you need to pick the horses that finish first and second in the exact order.
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She placed a perfecta bet on the horses competing in the championship race.
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Winning a perfecta can lead to a substantial payout if you guess the correct order of finishers.
Synonyms
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A bet to pick the first and second horses to finish in the correct order
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word perfecta comes from the word perfect, which means 'complete' or 'exact'. In horse racing, a perfecta is a bet where you must pick the first and second horses in the exact order, so the name helps you remember that you need a 'perfect' prediction to win.