rake

rake
 v.— «After almost a century in which anguish has accumulated like autumn leaves, New England wakes up this morning toasting a team that, in the current baseball parlance, really “rakes.”» —“Boston’s long wait finally comes to end” by Tim Sullivan in St. Louis, Mo. San Diego Union-Tribune (California) Oct. 28, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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