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TIEBREAKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("tiebreaker" is a kind of...):
extra time; overtime (playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie)