playoffs
PLAY-awfs/ˈpleɪˌɔfs/UKPLAY-ofs/ˈpleɪɒfs/
- 1Plural of playoff.
The team won its last six games to sneak into the playoffs.
The orchestra handles the short playoffs between scenes, each one echoing the song just sung.
Note
What the playoffs decide depends on the side of the Atlantic. In American use they crown the league champion, and a team makes the playoffs or misses them; in British use they settle the last place promoted to a higher league. Backstage the word has a quieter life: the short reprises an orchestra plays to carry one scene of a musical into the next.
playoffs is a form of playoff
playoff, noun: A short series of games played to decide a league's champion. Full entry
- Forms
- playoffplayoffs plural
- Spelling
- playoff → playoffs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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