Where does “handicap” come from?
Handicap comes from the phrase hand in cap, a seventeenth-century parlor game where players drew lots from a cap to determine odds in exchanges of personal goods.
handicap (English): Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders; An...
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- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders; An...
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