Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched

(rare) Synonym of close only counts in horseshoes

Alternative form of close only counts in horseshoes

Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).

(Britain, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.

In a way that counteracts.

In a counteractive manner.

plural of counteractor

plural of counteracter

Something that counteracts.