shneid

English

Etymology

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Noun

shneid (plural shneids)

1. (informal, US, sports) A losing streak, especially a hitless period in baseball.
   • 2001, Ilana Abramovitch with Seán Galvin, Jews of Brooklyn, page 315:

     Danny Kaye was an avid baseball fan, passionately devoted to his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers who broke the shneid by beating the Yankees in the previous World Series.

   • 2002 November 10, “Jets Vs. Dolphins”, in alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Ok. The dolphins got off the shneid by finally beating the Jets in the first go round.

   • 2003 March 21, “Cal Tennis Welcomes Purdue”, in dailycal.org:

     Cal is 3-0 all-time against the Boilermakers and is in a good position to keep Purdue on the shneid.

   • 2005 December 3, “Jaaber, Penn turn back Navy”, in Philadelphia Daily News:

     [Eric Osmundson] has to get off the shneid, David [Whitehurst] has to help us, and even Ibby's better than 2-for-7. Hopefully, it'll start to come.

Anagrams

• Hedins, Hindes, Shinde, henids, shined