rundown

noun

1. 1

   A rough outline of a topic or situation.

   Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?

2. 2

   A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.

   Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]

   I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.

3. 3

   A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.

   Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.

4. 4

   A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.

5. 5

   A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.

   The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,

adjective

1. 1

   Variant of run-downAlternative form of run-down.

Forms

plural

rundowns