game-winning
chiefly Sport (originally and chiefly North American )
adjective
That brings about or contributes to victory in a game.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago).
- like a ripe plum (or ripe plums)
- like a scalded cat
- like a shag on a rock
- like a shot
- like a streak
- like a stunned mullet
- like a ton of bricks
- like blazes
- like blue murder
- like clockwork
- like crazy
- like death warmed up (or over)
- like enough (or most like)
- like father, like son
- like fury
- like (greased) lightning
- like hell
- like herding cats
- like it or not
- like it's going out of style (or fashion)
- likelihood
- likelihood ratio
- likeliness
- likely
- likely-looking