point-shave

verb

point-shave

verb

1

Gambling, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.

You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games.1972, Public Hearing Before Gambling Study Commission, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season.1987, Richard Edward Lapchick, Robert Malekoff, On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-athlete, page 56:

1 more example

Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995.2003, Nevada Law Journal - Volume 4, page 323:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.