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Sandbagging

Sandbagging may refer to: * Hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone in a sport or competition: ** Sandbagging (chess), deliberately lowering one's rating to enter a lower-rated section of a tournament ** Sandbagging (climbing), undergrading the difficulty of a climbing route ** Sandbagging (cue sports), disguising one's playing ability ** Sandbagging (golf), misrepresenting one's handicap ** Sandbagging (grappling), competing in a skill-bracket or being ranked lower than one is deemed capable of ** Slow play, deceptive play in poker ** Sandbagging (racing), deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform * Sandbagging (law), suing for a breach of a contractual representation or warranty despite having known at the time of the contract that it was untrue * Sandbagging (professional wrestling), to not cooperate with a throw and to act as dead weight * Sandbagging, a verb describing the use of sandbags for flood control and other applications

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Sandbagging may refer to: * Hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone in a sport or competition: ** Sandbagging (chess), deliberately lowering one's rating to enter a lower-rated section of a tournament ** Sandbagging (climbing), undergrading the difficulty of a climbing route ** Sandbagging (cue sports), disguising one's playing ability ** Sandbagging (golf), misrepresenting one's handicap ** Sandbagging (grappling), competing in a skill-bracket or being ranked lower than one is deemed capable of ** Slow play, deceptive play in poker ** Sandbagging (racing), deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform * Sandbagging (law), suing for a breach of a contractual representation or warranty despite having known at the time of the contract that it was untrue * Sandbagging (professional wrestling), to not cooperate with a throw and to act as dead weight * Sandbagging, a verb describing the use of sandbags for flood control and other applications

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