playoff

See also: play-off, and play off

English

Alternative forms

• 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^[1]:

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

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

• 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.