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擦边球
cā​biān​qiú

borderline action

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
擦边球 (擦邊球) cā​biān​qiú
borderline action noun
actions that are technically legal but push the boundaries of rules or morality
edge ball noun
a shot in table tennis that hits the edge of the table top

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.893 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)