单词 | after-game |
释义 | after-gamen.adj. A. n. Now rare. 1. a. A second or subsequent game, played esp. in order to overturn an earlier loss; a return match, a rematch. Also: a later game. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ 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 a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 523 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 99 (MED) He leseth his after game, That surely cannot sette his poyntes double. 1568 D. Lindsay Kitteis Confessioun in Wks. (1931) I. 124 The curate..began hir to exempne; He was best at the efter game. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 68v Tweare ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, To put the hazard on an after game. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. 3 Losing by a strange aftergame of folly, all the battels we have wonne. 1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis v. 61 If we compare our now-being with the state of inactivity we were deliver'd from, It may then be call'd an After-Game of the divine Goodnesse. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. xviii. 159 When Satans Designs do not take to spoil the Duties,..he then seeks to play an after-game. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. 39 Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; Still there remains an After-game to play. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 762 What can after-games Of riper joys, and commerce with the world..Add to such erudition? 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. lxxxiii. 65 When this famous conference..was ended,..I played an aftergame of no small moment. 1838 J. S. Knowles Woman's Wit iii. i. 43 Ambition?.. No; that's an after-game. There's one we play Before. 1846 Chess Player's Chron. 7 96 Taking the K B P, with his Kt—a sacrifice, as he demonstrated in an after game, which leads to many strikingly beautiful situations. 1911 F. F. Ayer Bell & Wing 721 Despair To leave her there For me if I came With my aftergame. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > course adopted to achieve an end > adopted after failure after-game1596 1596 A. Bacon Let. May in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1974) I. 228 Without my watchfullness & painefull patience he would haue chaunced vppon some blott wherby to haue made an after-game. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd2 It beinge extreame harde to plaie an after game of reputation. View more context for this quotation 1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. To Rdr. 1 Apologies are ever read with Jelousie: and they are indeed but after-games at Reputation. 1723 D. Waterland 2nd Vindic. Christ's Divinity v. 209 Those who having espoused a bad cause, have an After-game to play for their own reputation. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Ressource,..the means..of a man's recovering himself from his fall or ruin; or an after-game for repairing his damages. 1814 Examiner 2 Oct. 635/2 He [sc. Napoleon] had an after-game to play—a game which..would place him again in that elevated situation. 1848 G. E. Jewsbury Half Sisters xxxiii. 308 But, alas! an after-game of love is harder even than an after-game of reputation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > actions or positions lympoldingc1350 blot1598 after-game1601 why-nota1612 non-pass1688 hit1766 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. l. sig. Nn6v Like an after game at Irish, that is wonne and lost diuers times in an instant. 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case iv. i. sig. Hv Many a time and often, when a Cause Has prooued like an after-game at Irish. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 29 Since Life is but as a Game at Tables, if the fore-game be not to thy wish; neither whine nor Curse, but rowse thy care to an after-Game. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xxviii. 159 Sometimes it is good going over into your Adversaries [Tick-Tack] Tables , but it is best for an After-game. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 208 The Huntsman should therefore be..good at both Fore and After Game. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 337 She knew she might play an after-game; and could easily relax by degrees from the severity of her chastity. B. adj. Originally and chiefly U.S. = after-match adj. at after- prefix 3. Cf. post-match adj. at post- prefix 2a(a)(i). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > pre- or post-game after-game1904 pregame1913 post-game1934 1904 Boston Daily Globe 20 Nov. 1/2 No Harvard man is seriously injured; after-game dinner for the Crimson not a gloomy one. 1928 Bee (Danville, Va.) 13 Oct. 6/4 Virginia's Cavaliers..had visions of an after game celebration. 1963 N.Y. Herald Tribune 26 Sept. 20/1 Tailgate picnics take over for the football season. After game parties have lost their importance. 1991 M. R. Zubro Sorry Now? 32 The Cubs had a home game that afternoon, and Turner and Fenwick got caught in the after-game traffic. 2005 V. Bennett-Butcher From Veronica with Love xi. 98 I still did the scoring at all the cricket matches and held the after game parties at my house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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