race card
See also: racecard
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]race card (plural race cards)
- (often derogatory) The invocation of a person's race in order to gain sympathy or an advantage.
- 2025 February 22, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Jonathan Swan, quoting Pete Hegseth, “Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill?” he wrote. “We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to C.Q. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter.”
- (sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.
- Alternative form: racecard
Related terms
[edit]- (invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion): play the race card
Translations
[edit]printed card or pamphlet listing horses to be run in a horse race
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the invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy
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Verb
[edit]race card (third-person singular simple present race cards, present participle race carding, simple past and past participle race carded)
- To invoke race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.
