rundown

rundown
rundown (n.) in baseball sense, first recorded 1908, from RUN (Cf. run) (v.) + DOWN (Cf. down) (adv.). Meaning "list of entries in a horse race and the odds" is from 1935; slang sense of "summary, account, list of information or facts" is from 1945.

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