face off1
chiefly North American Take up an attitude of confrontation, especially at the start of a fight or game: close to a million soldiers face off in the desert...
- Ellis now found himself at Tiger Stadium for the All-Star Game, facing off against Blue in an historic matchup of minority pitchers.
- The two teams will face off in a second game on Saturday at 2 p.m.
- Divided into two teams of four, they face off in a game of paintball warfare in the woods.
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face-off2 
noun
1chiefly North American A direct confrontation between two people or groups: last night’s vice presidential face-off...
- Now imagine that instead of a bilateral face-off, the next cold war will be a nuclear free-for-all.
- Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
- Please join us tomorrow in our face-off, a hard-fought battle over the security and reliability of electronic voting.
1.1 Ice Hockey The start of play, in which the puck is dropped by the referee between two opposing players.He said the referee had dropped the puck to start the face-off when two other opposing players had started to fight....
- The match was watched by Keith Hill, who dropped the puck at the first face-off to begin the game.
- Ben won the face-off and passed the puck to Nate.
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
- on a string
- on a sudden
- on automatic pilot
- on a wind
- on a wing and a prayer
- on-axis
- Onazote
- on balance
- on-baller
- on-base
- on-beat
- on bended knee(s)
- on board
- onboard
- onboarding
- on book
- ONC
- on call
- on-carry
- once
- once again (or more)
- once and for all (or once for all)
- once and future
- once a ——, always a ——