Usually means: Confrontation or competition starting point.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word face-off:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. face-off: Merriam-Webster
  2. face-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. face-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. face-off, face-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. face-off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Face-Off, Face-off, face-off: Wordnik
  7. face-off: Wiktionary
  8. face-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. face-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. face-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. face-off: Dictionary.com
  12. Face-off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. face-off: Rhymezone
  14. face-off: FreeDictionary.org
  15. face-off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. face-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. face-off: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. face-off: ESL Slang page

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A confrontation or argument between two people or groups
noun:  (ice hockey) The start of play, when two players try to get control of the puck dropped by the referee
noun:  (field lacrosse) The start of play, when two players attempt to get possession of a ball placed on the ground between them by the referee

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