home game
41
2.3
- noun
:
partido en casa
- The team celebrated after winning their last home game of the season.
- play home games
- attend home games
- team's home games
So, so some teams have boxes for home games, some teams don't.
- So, so some teams have boxes for home games, some teams don't.
- Like a random like second round Knicks home game.
- The only thing you have to do for sure first is win your home games.
- They upset at TCU and the next one was a home game.
- And there was a pub in Hume called The Great Parrot, which is what the hooligan element of Manchester United used to use on home games.
Examples
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The Los Angeles Dodgers had only 16 home games rained out... in 41 years of baseball.
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Which is surprising, since this is the last home game of the season.
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You still going to all the home games?
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Here for every Los Angeles home game.
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Pro football teams play only eight regular season home games a year.
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I don't think my brother ever missed one home game.
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As stated above, World Cup teams play their home games in many stadiums across their home country.
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But Elon's seniors are playing in their final home game and would love to go out winners.
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From the late 1950s to the late 1980s, all home games were sellouts.
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In addition, free-throw shooting percentage in home games (71.1%) was compared to away games (66.5%).
Academic text (1995)
Antonyms
How Important
- UK
1
3.2
- UK
2
1.5
41
2.3
- US
12
3.3
2
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sports match played at a team's own venue' is directly and compositionally derived from 'home' (the team's own venue) + 'game' (a sports contest). This is a regular compound pattern common in sports vocabulary and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Home game comes from the simple idea of a team playing in its own place. Home means the team's own stadium and game means the match, so a home game is a match played at the team's own stadium.