playoff
Forms
- Plural
- playoffs
Definitions
1.A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
2.A short series of games to select a league champion.
3.A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
4.A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3413
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
Deverbal from play off; by surface analysis, play + -off.