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(tennis,slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, in BBC:
The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone.
The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness.
2012, G. Terrell Cotter, The Arm of the Lord: End Times Mystery, WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 28:
Linus was half basset and half beagle hound, thus a bagel.
“bagel”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02