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It's professional wrestling terminology - back when the art form actively concealed the fact that it was fixed, they developed a bunch of subcultural slang to discuss it, including work/shoot and a bunch of other terms like 'kayfabe' - the word for the practice of maintaining the illusion that pro wrestling was real.