Definition of Handicapping

1. Verb. (present participle of handicap) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handicapping

1. handicap [v] - See also: handicap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handicapping

handholding
handholdings
handholds
handi-craftsman
handi-craftsmen
handicap
handicapitalism
handicapped
handicapped-accessible
handicapped permit
handicapped person
handicapped sign
handicapped space
handicapper
handicappers
handicapping
handicaps
handicraft
handicrafter
handicrafters
handicraftman
handicraftmen
handicrafts
handicraftsman
handicraftsmen
handier
handiest
handily
handiness
handinesses

Literary usage of Handicapping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"In his more recent memoir, "On the Handicapping of the First Born," 1914, Professor Pearson elaborates this thesis and responds to the criticism directed at ..."

2. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"CHAPTER XIX Handicapping, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF PRIZE MEETINGS If thou dost ... 3 I. Handicapping THE soothsayer who spoke these words to Antony must have ..."

3. The Complete Lawn Tennis Player by Arthur Wallis Myers (1908)
"CHAPTER XIII Handicapping The old bisque system and its defects—Limitations of the "quarter" system—The "sixths" method—Difficulties under which official ..."

4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... in handicapping when the handicapper sets him back, or gives him less start than he has hitherto had. Back of beyond, the (American), a mythical country ..."

5. Practical Golf by Walter J. Travis (1901)
"XIV Handicapping THE essence of handicapping is to put all the players on a common level—to give the poorest player ..."

6. Democracy and the Eastern Question: The Problem of the Far East as by Thomas Franklin Millard (1919)
"Japan exercising sovereign authority—Summary of methods handicapping American trade in Manchuria and Shantung—The mail and shipping matters—Views of ..."

7. Present-day Golf by George Duncan, Bernard Darwin (1921)
"Chapter X. Problems of Handicapping SOME years ago now, before the war, I saw a friend of mine starting out to play a rather curious match. ..."

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