A tournament format for any team sport or game in which the teams are determined by randomly dividing up the participants into appropriately sized groups.
A last dance is figuratively a last run. In this sense, it often suggests nostalgia. In sports, it could be the last time a team or a team's players are together before retirement or moving to another team. It can also be final romantic fling or time together.
(sports) A player who loses in the final round of qualifying for a tournament, and who subsequently enters the tournament after the withdrawal of another competitor, e.g. due to injury.
(Australia, New Zealand) A race competitor or competition entrant who or that places among the top three (or other number chosen to receive recognition and/or a prize), or in a specified position (place).
Alternative form of play the man and not the ball [(sports) To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.]
Alternative form of play the man and not the ball [(sports) To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.]
Alternative form of postseason [(US, sports) The period after the end of the normal sports season during which extra games are held (such as playoffs or championships).]
(fiction) Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”) [(US, collegiate sports) An athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.]
(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
Alternative spelling of repechage [(sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.]
(transitive, inseparable, idiomatic, slang) To defeat (especially in an argument), get the better of, achieve a success over, gain an advantage or win points over, make a point to the detriment or at the expense of, make appear foolish. Sometimes with particle on (someone).
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