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Definition of Inside track
1. Noun. A favorable position in a competition. "The boss's son had the inside track for that job"
2. Noun. The inner side of a curved racecourse.
Definition of Inside track
1. Noun. (sports chiefly racing) The lane or track nearest to the interior. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) Any advantage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inside Track
Literary usage of Inside track
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smiles Yoked with Sighs by Robert Jones Burdette (1900)
"The inside track HE came to the bower of her I love Twanging his light guitar;
He called her in song his snow white dove, His lily, his fair, bright star, ..."
2. Report by Jacob Merritt Howard, United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on memorial of Davis Hatch (1869)
"He knew that I had the inside track of him, as we call it. He heard something
about Staples buying mules and my selling a horse to the ..."
3. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by John William Wallace, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"Statement of the case. that soon after leaving the judge's stund, Seaver having
the inside track, and his mare and Gilmore's horse being nearly abreast, ..."
4. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1903)
"The "step" method is that whereby the outer rail of the inside track and the
inner rail of the outside track are placed at the same level (usually at grade) ..."
5. Practical Track Work by Kenneth L. Van Auken (1915)
"... is where the outer rail of the inside track and the inner rail of the outside
track are placed at the same elevation, usually on grade, ..."
6. Through Ramona's Country by George Wharton James (1908)
"He was to have the inside track, as the lot had decided. " While the judges were
still shouting at him through a megaphone, Michel's superb team came ..."
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