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handicap

Disadvantage placed on a superior competitor to allow competition on level terms. For example, a golfer's handicap is calculated by deducting from the number of strokes the person takes to complete 18 holes the par for the course (the number of strokes a first-class player should take to complete the course). Other sports using handicapping systems include horse racing, sailing, and polo.



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Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any section.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
I see from the local paper that you are still playing at two handicap.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
He could draw well enough and he had many odd deli- cate thoughts hidden away in his brain that might have expressed themselves through the brush of a painter, but he was always a child and that was a handicap to his worldly development.
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