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point shaving
noun
, Sports.
- (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
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The NBA banned seven players in 1951 for being involved in college point shaving.
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