English Dictionary

handicap

/ˈhændikæp/

noun

Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.

He overcame his handicap and became a successful athlete.

意味（1）

Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.

Age is often a handicap.

意味（2）

(sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.

The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.

意味（3）

(sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.

意味（4）

A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.

意味（5）

(obsolete, uncountable, card games) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.

Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.

意味（6）

(obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”)