pencil fever

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare penciler (“a bookmaker”).

Noun[edit]

pencil fever (uncountable)

  1. (horse racing, slang, obsolete) The situation where punters discover that a horse is almost certain to lose, and so become eager to lay bets against it.

References[edit]

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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