snakebite
v.— «Temple over Toledo—Hard luck Owls shake the snakebite.» —“Pitt Picked to Lose, Yale to Take Penn” by Ralph Bernstein in Philadelphia Gettysburg Times (Pa.) Nov. 9, 1962. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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