adj
Meaning 1
Significantly below the actual cost or value.
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Standard Lemma guide
lowball
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noun
Meaning 2
The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
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noun
Meaning 3
A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)
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Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
Meaning 4
A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
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noun
Meaning 5
An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.
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noun
Meaning 6
Clipping of lowball glass.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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verb
Meaning 7
To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 10
make a deliberately low estimate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: underestimate
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Broader terms: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge
History
Etymology
American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: aliarvioida — to give an intentionally low estimate
- Finnish: arvioida alakanttiin — to give an intentionally low estimate
- German: bewusst unterschätzen — to give an intentionally low estimate
- German: absichtlich unter Wert schätzen — to give an intentionally low estimate
- Finnish: antaa huono tarjous — to give (a customer) a deceptively low price
- Finnish: vedättää — to make an offer well below an item's true value
- Finnish: antaa huono tarjous — to make an offer well below an item's true value
- German: bewusst unterbieten — to make an offer well below an item's true value
- German: vorsätzlich unter Wert bieten — to make an offer well below an item's true value
- Spanish: ofrecer muy / demasiadamente poco dinero — to make an offer well below an item's true value