home-and-homeadv.adj.n.
/ˌhəʊm(ə)n(d)ˈhəʊm/, U.S. /ˌhoʊmənˈhoʊm/ Sport.
A. adv.
At the venue of each of the teams competing; at home and away from home; = home and away adv. Now North American.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adverb] > home or away
home-and-home1751
at home1833
home and away1885
away1890
on (also upon) the road1968
1751 General Evening Post 31 Aug. To-morrow will be a Match at Cricket..between the Gentlemen of Richmond and the Gentlemen of Kingston and Hampton... Eleven on each Side, and to play home and home.
1801 Morning Post 30 Dec. Six brace [of greyhounds] belonging to each county, running home and home, for a sum to be agreed on.
1828 Leicester Chron. 30 Aug. The agreement..states that a match shall be played home and home (that being the usual term).
1909 Amer. Golfer June 478/2 Heretofore, matches have been played home and home only in the fall, and with teams of six.
1928 Times 13 Oct. 5/2 The first of the annual Inter-Club Tennis matches, which are played, home and home, between the M.C.C., Prince's Club, and Queen's Club, will be played to-day.
2003 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Sports) 3 Iowa has refused to compete home-and-home with the Gophers as they did last season.
B. adj.
Designating a pair of matches between two teams, the first played at one team’s venue and the second at the other team's venue; of or relating to matches played in this way; = home and away adj. Cf. out-and-home adj. 2. Now North American.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > home or away
home1826
home-and-home1829
away1886
out-and-home1887
road1896
1829 Leicester Chron. 6 June We learn that a home-and-home match is concluded between equal numbers of the town and county of Leicester, and the town and county of Nottingham, for £50 each match.
1858 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 4 Oct. 3/1 At the home and home match played on Friday between the Nassau and Osceola Clubs,..the score was..Osceola 29..Nassau 12.
1870 Bradford Observer 5 May 8/5 The club will play one match with the Bradford Albion, and home-and-home games with the Bradford Second Eleven.
1921 A. Kirkaldy Fifty Years Golf 123 There I met and played Taylor, whose green was close at hand. We played home and home matches.
1953 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 25 Jan. c1/1 The series was resumed on a home and home basis with the first game to be played at Notre Dame's Memorial Stadium.
1967 Observer 16 Apr. 18/5 No home and home nonsense. Just straight knock-out.
1991 D. Sittler et al. Sittler (1992) ix. 133 After the team was swept 8–1 and 4–1 in a home-and-home weekend series with Montreal, Punch was fired.
C. n.
North American. A pair of matches between two teams where each team plays one of the matches at home.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of
all comersc1450
after-gamea1500
fore-game1594
revenge1616
plate1639
set-to1743
return match1753
bye1754
scrub-race1791
anybody's game (also race, match)1826
return1834
barney1843
bonspiel1858
handicap1861
pennant1865
home-and-home1868
benefit match1871
run-off1873
international1877
American tournament1878
Grand Prix1879
single1884
friendly1885
all-comers1889
pair1890
championship1893
round robin1894
replay1895
Olympiad1896
junior varsity1902
lightning tournament1903
rematch1903
road trip1903
pickup1905
freestyle1906
marathon1908
test1908
Derby1909
scrimmage1910
eliminator1911
twosome1911
triala1914
quadrangular1916
slug-fest1916
varsity match1921
needle contest1922
curtain jerker1923
needle match1923
open1926
needle fight1927
knock-out1928
shirt1930
masters1933
pro-amateur1934
tune-up1934
World Cup1934
pro-am1937
state1941
sizzler1942
runathon1943
mismatch1954
run-out1955
match-up1959
squeaker1961
triple-header1961
Super Bowl1967
invitational1968
needle game1970
major1976
slobberknocker1986
1868 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 15 Oct. 2/6 The Athletics..now have to play a home-and-home with the Mutuals.
1971 Daily News (Red Bluff, Calif.) 23 July 6/2 This weekend..is the Home and Home with Susanville.
1996 M. Daub Gael Force i. 33 A playoff was needed, Queen's and McGill..being tied in the home-and-home with a victory each.
2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. viii. 5/5 What better way for the fans and the players to get the season started than by opening with a home-and-home right out of the gate?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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