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Upset.
Last seen on: Daily Celebrity Crossword – 4/4/20 Smartypants Saturday
Random information on the term ” Upset”:
An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the favorite), either loses to or draws/ties a game with an underdog whom the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom. It is often used in reference to beating the betting odds in sports, or beating the opinion polls in electoral politics.
The meaning of the word has sometimes been erroneously attributed to the surprising defeat of the horse Man o’ War by the horse Upset (the loss was the only one in Man o’ War’s career); the term pre-dates that 1919 race by at least several decades. In its sports coverage immediately following Upset’s victory, the Washington Post wrote, “One might make all sorts of puns about it being an upset.”
In 2002, George Thompson, a lexicographic researcher, used the full-text online search capabilities of The New York Times databases to trace the usage of the verb to upset and the noun upset. The latter was seen in usage as early as 1877. Thompson’s research debunked one popular theory of the term’s origin, namely that it was first used after the Thoroughbred racehorse Upset became the only horse to defeat Man o’ War in 1919.