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Definition of Handicapper
1. Noun. Someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race).
Definition of Handicapper
1. n. One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
Definition of Handicapper
1. Noun. One who determines the conditions of a handicap. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handicapper
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handicapper
Literary usage of Handicapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... in handicapping when the handicapper sets him back, or gives him less start
than he has hitherto had. Back of beyond, the (American), a mythical country ..."
2. The Complete Lawn Tennis Player by Arthur Wallis Myers (1908)
"... comparison between English and foreign handicapping— The methods of a leading
Continental handicapper—Is the present system unsound in principle? ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1898)
"HOODWINKING THE handicapper. By FINCH MASON. QUARTER of a century ago it is hard
to say which the old-fashioned city of Middleborough was most famous ..."
4. The Racing World and Its Inhabitants edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1904)
"X handicapperS AND HANDICAPPING BY A handicapper THE word " handicapping," derived,
it may be, from hand in cap, in reference to an old mode of settling a ..."
5. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1888)
"Atkinson, Mr TS, Judge, handicapper, Clerk of the Scales, ... Mr CS, Clerk of
the Course, handicapper, and Scales, handicapper, and Stakeholder. ..."
6. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"The handicapper must take a general view of the rise and fall of the ... On the
other hand, the handicapper may find his difficulties in dealing with the ..."
7. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1888)
"Mr CS, Clerk of the Course, handicapper, and Stakeholder. Frail, Mr JE, Clerk of
the Course, handicapper, and Stakeholder. Gladstone, Mr WS, Clerk of the ..."
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