kitty-bar-the-door

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. or attrib.

in sports, a strongly defensive style of play, often adopted by a team already ahead in goals.

Quotations

1963

It is generally agreed, however, that defensively the kitty-bar-the-door Ottawa Senator brigade was in a class all alone.

1966

Thus there came to the fore Ottawa's kitty-bar-the-door system, an invention of the late Art Ross. . . .