Definitions

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  • noun A kind of bet wherein the first and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.

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  • noun a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From American Spanish (quiniela) perfecta, perfect (quinella), feminine of perfecto, perfect, from Latin perfectus; see perfect.]

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From American Spanish quiniela perfecta ‘perfect quinella’.

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Examples

  • Live on Televisa, according to the next-day story in El Paίs, Vargas Llosa drifted off-script during the discussion and said: México es la dictadura perfecta.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Live on Televisa, according to the next-day story in El Paίs, Vargas Llosa drifted off-script during the discussion and said: México es la dictadura perfecta.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Live on Televisa, according to the next-day story in El Paίs, Vargas Llosa drifted off-script during the discussion and said: México es la dictadura perfecta.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Several guys on the Winter payroll would purchase large quantities of perfecta, exacta, trifecta, or quinella tickets on the fixed races.

    The Mob and Me John Partington 2010

  • PORFAVORRR que la nana de bella sea la canción RIVER FLOWS IN YOU!!! es hermosisima y es perfecta para ese papel!!!! es LO MAXIMOOOOOO elizabeth on Sep 22, 2008

    Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • No se si sea perfecta, pero asi se los contaria a mis amigos y mi familia mexicana.

    Estoy clavado en un bar... 2007

  • No se si sea perfecta, pero asi se los contaria a mis amigos y mi familia mexicana.

    Estoy clavado en un bar... 2007

  • No se si sea perfecta, pero asi se los contaria a mis amigos y mi familia mexicana.

    Estoy clavado en un bar... 2007

  • No se si sea perfecta, pero asi se los contaria a mis amigos y mi familia mexicana.

    Estoy clavado en un bar... 2007

  • No se si sea perfecta, pero asi se los contaria a mis amigos y mi familia mexicana.

    Estoy clavado en un bar... 2007

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