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Answer for the clue "Holding back to gain an edge ", 11 letters:
sandbagging

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Sandbagging , hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement, may refer to: in billiards and other games, deliberately playing below one's actual ability in order to fool opponents into accepting higher stakes bets, ...

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vb. (present participle of sandbag English)

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.