八百長

やおちょう

Meanings

1. Noun match fixing; put-up job; fixed game (from the nickname of a Meiji-period greengrocer who would purposely lose at Go)

Kanji

• 八 eight. Read as や.
• 百 hundred
• 長 long. Read as チョウ.

Example sentences

• このゲームは八百長だ。
  This game is fixed.
• あのレースは八百長だった。
  The race was fixed.
• 審判の方をちらりと睨むが、審判は涼しい顔して鼻クソをほじっていやがった。「ちくしょう、八百長かよ・・・」
  I shot a look in the referee's direction, but he was putting on a calm face while picking his nose. "Dammit, the fight's a fixup!?"

Words containing 八百長

• 八百長試合 (やおちょうじあい) fixed match

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