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tie-breaker
tie-breaker n.
Brit. 
/ˈtʌɪbreɪkə/
, /ˈtʌɪbreɪkə/U.S. /ˈtaɪˌbreɪkər/
a means of deciding a winner out of two or more contestants who have tied; also figurative./ˈtaɪˌbreɪkər/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > specific one of series
heata1663
rubber game1793
round1837
rubber match1843
tie-match1864
final1880
postseason1882
semi-final1884
preliminary1886
cup-tie1895
play-off1895
tie1895
leg1899
repechage1899
qualifier1908
quarter-final1916
playdown1918
rounder1918
go-around1933
quick death1938
semi1942
pretrial1946
quarter1950
barrage1955
tie-breaker1961
semi-main1968
tie-break1970
breaker1979
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tie-breaker.
1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 179/1 There are several species of tie-breakers, but the one that Bill Talbert, the tournament director, selected..was the ninepoint sudden-death variety.
1971 Computers & Humanities 6 68 The identifiers will be indexed and will serve as ultimate tie-breakers in all sorting operations.
1979 G. Hammond Dead Game xiv. 188 At the end of the quiz, honours were even..and the chairman asked for a tie-breaker from the audience.
1982 Daily Tel. 21 Sept. 16/4 [Rifle-shooting.] Belither..beat Paul Kent..by a single point on a tiebreaker.
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