playoff game
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- noun
- /ˈpleɪˌɔf ɡeɪm/
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partido de la fase final
- Today's playoff game will determine which team advances to the finals.
- win a playoff game
- first playoff game
- playoff game this season
Well, he threw a go route to Drew Pearson in a playoff game against Minnesota with seconds left.
- Well, he threw a go route to Drew Pearson in a playoff game against Minnesota with seconds left.
- And then three years later to the day, he was playing, I think a playoff game for Denver.
- I remember the first playoff game I ever saw was a Saints first playoff game and they played the Minnesota Vikings.
- If the Patriots go the next Four Seasons and win no playoff games, I believe that the narrative on Belichick's career could get very weird.
- Yeah, coming in playoff game, you get to play against Ashton Genti.
- You know, you go to Ohio State, you get playing BCS playoff games, you are all conference.
Examples
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We are here live at the Premier Soccer Center for the divisional playoff game between the Angels and the Wildcats.
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It's tickets to tonight's NBA playoff game...
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Yeah, except that I have a really big playoff game coming up.
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My team won their first playoff game.
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The playoff game is on Channel 9.
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When is the last time you saw a lack of effort in a playoff game?
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You're going to miss my playoff game.
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This is the Denver-Cleveland playoff game.
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His availability for Monday's National League playoff game remains a question mark.
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Before last week, Ichiro's most recent playoff game took place on October 22, 2001, in New York.
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Synonyms
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1.0
One part of a match in sports, played to win points
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Games between top teams to decide the champion
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6.3
A match between teams in a cup competition where the loser is out
How Decisive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'playoff' (games to decide the winner) combined with 'game' (a contest) clearly yields 'a game that is part of the playoffs.' This noun+noun construction is a common, transparent pattern in English (and found in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Playoff game comes from the idea of teams playing extra matches to play off a tie and decide the winner. So a playoff game today is a match after the regular games that helps 'decide' who will be the 'champion'.