playoff

See also: play-off and play off

English

Alternative forms

English Wikipedia has an article on:

playoff

Wikipedia

• play-off

Etymology

Deverbal from play off; by surface analysis, play +‎ -off.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: play‧off

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

playoff (plural playoffs)

1. A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
2. (US) A short series of games to select a league champion.
3. (UK) A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
   • 2023 May 27, Raj Singh Mahil, “EFL Championship playoff final result: Luton defeat Coventry on penalties to clinch Premier League promotion”, in THe Sporting News‎:
4. A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.

Derived terms

• playoff beard
• Shaughnessy playoff

Translations

series game

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: плейоф m (plejof), мач на елиминация (mač na eliminacija) Chinese: Mandarin: 季後賽 / 季后赛 (zh) (jìhòusài), 附加賽 / 附加赛 (zh) (fùjiāsài) Czech: baráž (cs) f Finnish: pudotuspelit, pudotuspeli (fi) Georgian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: プレーオフ (purēofu) Kazakh: плей-офф (plei-off) Korean: 플레이오프 (ko) (peulleiopeu) Latin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Livonian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: плејоф m (plejof) Polish: baraż (pl) m, repasaż (pl) m, repesaż m Portuguese: play-off m, playoff m Russian: плей-офф (ru) m (plej-off) Slovak: baráž f Spanish: playoff (es) m, eliminatoria (es) f Swedish: utslagsmatch, playoff-match Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• play off

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

playoff

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Alternative forms

• play-off

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Noun

playoff m pl (plural only)

1. (sports) playoff

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Noun

playoff m (plural playoffs)

1. alternative form of play-off

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pleˈʝof/ [pleˈʝof]

• IPA^(key): /pleˈʝof/ [pleˈʝof] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /pleˈʃof/ [pleˈʃof] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /pleˈʒof/ [pleˈʒof] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -of

Noun

playoff m (plural playoffs)

1. (sports) playoff

   Synonym: eliminatoria

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.