In sports slang, a horse-collar is “a score of zero,” and to horse-collar an opponent is “to hold them scoreless.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Horse-Collar Score”
Here’s another bit of baseball slang: horse collar. Do you know this term? C-o-l-l-a-r, horse collar.
A vaguely familiar? Catch me up.
Well, you know, a horse collar is round, right? It’s just one big loop.
And so if you horse collar somebody, you hold them to zero.
So it’s a goose egg.
Exactly. It’s a goose egg or like in tennis when you bagel somebody. It’s that shape that looks like a zero, a horse collar.
So if the Yankees horse collar the Mets, they’ve kept them to zero.
Exactly.
Thank you.
