boat race
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
boat race (plural boat races)
- A race between rowing crews.
- The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is held on the Thames every year.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The face.
- (gambling, slang) A fixed horse race, with a specific horse arranged to win in advance.
ReferencesEdit
- “boat race”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.