race card
See also: racecard
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race card (plural race cards)
- (often derogatory) The invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.
- (sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.
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- (invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion): play the race card
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printed card or pamphlet listing horses to be run in a horse race
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the invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy
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race card (third-person singular simple present race cards, present participle race carding, simple past and past participle race carded)
- To invoke race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.