mucking contest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a contest in which miners compete in shovelling a measured quantity of broken rock (usually a ton) into a mine car in the shortest time.

See: muck(def. 2).

Quotations

1958

Races, horseshoe pitching, a mucking contest, a ball game and many other side-shows [took place].