race card

See also: racecard

English

Alternative forms

• racecard

A race card (sense 2)

Pronunciation

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Noun

race card (plural race cards)

1. (often derogatory) The invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.
2. (sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.

Related terms

• (invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion): play the race card

Translations

printed card or pamphlet listing horses to be run in a horse race

• Finnish: kilpailuohjelma
• French: programme des courses m
• German: Rennprogramm n

the invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy

• Finnish: rotukortti

Verb

race card (third-person singular simple present race cards, present participle race carding, simple past and past participle race carded)

1. To invoke race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.

See also

• gender card
• play the race card
• pussy pass
• rape card

Further reading

• race card on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Racecard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia