八百長
Meanings
Noun
1. match fixing; put-up job; fixed game (from the nickname of a Meiji-period greengrocer who would purposely lose at Go)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
やおちょう
Used in vocabulary
Examples3
あの
The race was fixed.
この
This game is fixed.
審判
I shot a look in the referee's direction, but he was putting on a calm face while picking his nose. "Dammit, the fight's a fixup!?"