English Explanatory Dictionary

antepost

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

Word forms

antepost ante-post

Etymology

From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

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