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The final featuring those who failed to pass the semifinals onto the A final, to sort out the minor rankings.
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(sports, idiomatic) To advance to the post-season as a result of another team's loss, especially where one's own team has also lost.
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(slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
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To perform a body check; to shove.
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(sports) A free transfer.
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(sports, entertainment) A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
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(transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
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(sports) match; a game between two sides.
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Alternative form of close season [(sports) The time of year when no competition takes place.]
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(sports) An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
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(sports) The rest period between sets or workout sessions.
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(sports) A list of players on a team who are unable or ineligible to play because of an injury.
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(sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
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The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
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The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
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(sports) A practice game which does not count on a team's record.
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a spectacle in the field involving opposing contestants
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(sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
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Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition.
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Alternative spelling of firststringer [A member of a first string.]
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To make a pass of this kind.
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(sports) A system through which professional athletes are free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
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(sports) A professional athlete who is free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
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(sports) The signing of a player without paying a fee to another club.
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(sports, idiomatic) A substitute who has yet to play in the match, and therefore has more energy than those already on the field.
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(sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.
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A result that one is attempting to achieve.
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a bout between two teams or competitors who have a history of competitiveness between them
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(sports) Of a player: to play as a guest of another team.
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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.
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(countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
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An event, especially a tournament, that is restricted to invited participants
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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.
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to take part in a sports event
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(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.
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(sports) To vigorously guard the opponent to whom one is assigned.
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(sports) In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a mercy rule.
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(slang, sports) A national championship
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(boxing, historical) The result of a boxing bout, promoted as an exhibition when the sport of boxing was illegal, when a knockout did not occur.
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(figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.
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Alternative spelling of octochamp [(UK, informal) A winner of eight consecutive heats of the British television game show Countdown.]
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Alternative form of oh for [(sports) A game or time period in which a player did not manage to sustain a particular attainment.]
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(sports) Period of time when regular competitions are not being held, or when an athlete is not participating in competitions.
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(sports) A contract in which the player signs on for one year with an option to stay for a second year.
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A sports event in which anybody can compete.
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(transitive, Australian rules football) To surpass in marking.
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(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).
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The position of a competitor at the end of a race.
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(idiomatic) To work together; to cooperate.
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(soccer, transitive) To pass (someone) the ball into an attacking position.
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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.]
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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.]
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an outcome of being among the best three in a competition
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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).]
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(US) Of or pertaining to such a period.
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One who reaches the stage that precedes the finals of a contest.
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(sports) Sport in which athletes receive payment for their performance.
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One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
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(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.]
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(US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.
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(sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to poor results
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A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.
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(sports) A player traded to a team with a year or less on his contract
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(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.
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(sports) A replayed match, often after the first game or match ended in a draw; a rematch.
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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.]
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(chiefly sports) A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.
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(idiomatic, sports, games) A passage of play; a series of consecutive moments, considered as a whole.
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Alternative spelling of runner-up [The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.]
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The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.
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Alternative form of runner-up [The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.]
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(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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(rare) The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).
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A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup.
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(volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
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(by extension) Finishing in second position, being a runner-up
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(sports, usually in passive voice) to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
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(by extension) Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but involves no personal loss.
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(golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
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(sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
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A competitor who reaches the superfinal
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The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.
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(in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
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(transitive, Britain, soccer) to make an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer
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a substitute or replacement.
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One who is a third string.
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(of a sports match) To begin.
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(sports) A list of players available for sale to other clubs.
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(sports) The mechanism by which players who have been released (waived) by teams are eligible to be hired by other teams.
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A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
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(of a professional sportsperson, usually an association footballer) who wants to move to another club
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(sports) Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to anti-doping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing
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(idiomatic, American football) To do something in memory of another person.
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The winner of a world cup or world championship.
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