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Shorten - General (gambling) and personalismo (sh)


Shorten - General (gambling)


When the odds of a horse decrease, usually because a lot of money has been wagered on that horse. A shortener is a horse which opens at a specific price at the start of Betting, and is at a lower price when Betting closes.

personalismo (sh)




(Spanish; "personalism")

In Latin America, the practice of glorifying a leader.

It often involves sacrificing the interests of political parties, ideologies, and constitutional government out of loyalty to a leader. Political parties throughout Latin America have often consisted of the personal following of a single individual, a fact reflected in the popular terms for the partisans. Members of Argentina's Justicialist National Movement, for example, are called peronistas (Peronists), for its charismatic founder, Argentine president Juan Peron, and the followers of Cuban leader Fidel Castro are fidelistas. See also caudillo.