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I was reading a comic and came across the following usage of 勝 which confused
me.

> この試合でオレを三橋に勝たしてくれ！

I know what it means (Help me beat Mihashi in this game), but I'm not sure
about how to parse "勝たしてくれ". "くれ" looks like it comes from "くれる", and I want
to say that "して" is the connective form of "する", yet I've been completely
unable to find a noun or suru-verb "勝た" in any of my dictionaries. The other
possibility I considered was "勝たして" came from a verb "勝たす", but once again I
couldn't find any such verb. What's going on here?
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Unusual usage of 勝 （勝たしてくれ？）
`勝たす` is a rougher variant of `勝たせる` - the causative form of `勝つ`. So it would
be something like "[Please] let me defeat Mihashi".
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「[勝]{か}たしてくれ」 is only the colloquial form of 「勝たせてくれ」.

「勝たせ」 is the [連用形]{れんようけい} (continuative form) of the causative verb 「勝たせる =
"to let win" or "to make win"」. Needless to say, 「勝たせる」 consists of the verb
「勝つ = "to win"」 and the auxiliary verb 「せる = "to cause to"」.

「て」 is a connective particle.

「くれ」 is the [命令形]{めいれいけい} (imperative form) of the verb 「くれる」

「(Person) + に + 勝たしてくれ」 = "Let me beat/defeat (Person)."

Other examples of the colloquial せ-to-し change:

「見して = "Show me."」、「行かして = "Let me go."」、「やらして = "Let me do it for ya"」, etc.
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