shneid
English
Etymology
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Noun
shneid (plural shneids)
- (informal, US, sports) A losing streak, especially a hitless period in baseball.
- 2001, Ilana Abramovitch; 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, 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.
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Anagrams
- Hedins, Hindes, henids, shined