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Gloves. World English Historical Dictionary

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Gloves. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Gloves TO GO FOR THE GLOVES, verb. phr. (racing).—To bet recklessly; to bet against a horse without having the wherewithal to pay if one loses—the last resource of the plunging turfite. The term is derived from the well-known habit of ladies to bet in pairs of gloves, expecting to be paid if they win, but not to be called upon to pay if they lose.

1   1877.  HAWLEY SMART, Play or Pay, ch. xi. One of the boldest plungers of the day, who had begun badly, was GOING FOR THE GLOVES upon this match.

2   1886.  EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE and W. G. CRAVEN, Racing, p. 259. Hardly worth mentioning are the backers who come in for a hit-or-miss dash at the ring—‘TO GO FOR THE GLOVES,’ as it is called in Turf parlance.

3   1891.  Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 3 April. Although we frequently read in stories of the hero backing the right horse at a long price, and so getting out of sundry monetary difficulties, we rarely find the idea realised in practice. Many a bookmaker has GONE FOR THE GLOVES.

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