point-shave

English

Alternative forms

• point shave

Verb

point-shave (third-person singular simple present point-shaves, present participle point-shaving, simple past and past participle point-shaved)

1. (sports, gambling) To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.
   • 1972, Public Hearing Before Gambling Study Commission, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games.

   • 1987, Richard Edward Lapchick, Robert Malekoff, On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-athlete, page 56:

     He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season.

   • 2003, Nevada Law Journal - Volume 4, page 323:

     Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995.