English Dictionary

nap

/nap/

noun

(Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips. / (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.

I placed a nap on the horse with the best odds.

意味（1）

(Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.

Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.

意味（2）

(uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.

意味（3）

A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.