Definitions for handicappers

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handicappers hand·i·cap·per

Spelling: [han-dee-kap-er]

IPA: /ˈhæn diˌkæp ər/

Handicappers is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1625 anagrams from letters in handicappers (aacdehinpprs).

Definitions for handicappers

noun

1. Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
2. a person who determines the handicaps that will be placed on competitors.

Origin of handicappers

First recorded in 1745-55; handicap + -er¹

Examples for handicappers

If he has one it is because the handicapper has been careless.

Perhaps Diablo had been stuck in the Brooklyn simply to see how the handicapper would rate him.

In this way the handicapper is deceived as to their true qualities, and is induced to weight them advantageously for the Omnium.

Before him raced a vision of Ben Connor, king of the racetracks of the world, with horses no handicapper could measure.

He's a fourteen pound better horse than Ding Dong ever was; a handicapper would separate them that much on their form.

The post-master, assisted by experts in the Post Office service, to be the handicapper.

According to Charlie Cook, the Capitol Hill handicapper, nine Senate races now qualify as "tossups."