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PLAYOFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does playoff mean?
• PLAYOFF (noun)
The noun PLAYOFF has 1 sense:
1. any final competition to determine a championship
Familiarity information: PLAYOFF used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any final competition to determine a championship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("playoff" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
Meronyms (parts of "playoff"):
playoff game (one game in the series of games constituting a playoff)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playoff"):
World Series (series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship)
Derivation:
play off (set into opposition or rivalry)
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