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Holding back to gain an edge
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sandbagging
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vb. (present participle of sandbag English)
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n. a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast v. treat harshly or unfairly compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn: dragoon , railroad ] hit something or somebody ...
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Sandbagging describes someone who underperforms (usually deliberately) in an event. The term has multiple uses, such as a driver who competes in an event in a series below their level of expertise to finish high. In bracket drag racing and short track racing ...
Usage examples of sandbagging.
They had been playing the sandbagging game, too, and had been in a better position to play it from.
Main Street, Canal Street, and the foot of Up-Mile Hill were impassable except by foot, and those who splashed and hurried their way toward the sandbagging operation felt the very streets beneath their feet trembling with the frenzied flow of the water, the way a turnpike overpass will tremble when big trucks pass each other.