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ˈplay-off, playoff
[f. play v. + off adv.]
a. An additional game or match played to decide a draw or tie; a replay.
b. N. Amer. A series of games or matches played to decide a championship, etc. Also transf., fig., and as v. intr.
1895Outing June 50/2 In the play-off for the championship of the city, the Sodality team won a bitterly contested game. 1906Liverpool Even. Express 9 Mar., The play-off resulted in a win. 1915Literary Digest (N.Y.) 21 Aug. 361/1 The race with the Cubs was a tie at the end of the season and a play-off game was necessary to decide the pennant. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 14/2 The play-off for the Middle Atlantic League baseball title will start Wednesday. 1939Beaver June 25/2 He had a son with the St. Boniface Seals and..was very interested in the fact that they were in the Dominion Junior Hockey Championship play-offs. 1947A. P. Gaskell Big Game 12 He spoke for a while about the traditions of the [Rugby] club and then about the honour of playing off for the championship. 1959Times 29 May 5/2 P. Gill..won the..first prize..after a six holes play-off. 1969John Edwards Mem. Foundation Quarterly V. iv. 145 Guthrie Meade is presently studying fiddling contests... Many of the contests involved preliminary play-offs. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 190 He'd use the man in his play-off with Manso. 1973Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 1 Mar. 13/2 The six rinks who have qualified for the finals of the 1973 Scottish curling championships will play-off, on a league basis, for the right to represent Scotland at the world championship. 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 11/6 The third division could have to go to a play-off, depending upon the result of the..match, still to be played. |