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after-game

after-game is the alternative spelling of aftergame.

Meaning of aftergame

Noun

aftergame (plural aftergames)

  1. (archaic) A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
    • Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,”
    Synonyms:
    rematch
    Antonyms:
    foregame
  2. Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

Forms of after-game

pluralafter-games

Questions about after-game

What is after-game the alternative spelling of?
After-game is the alternative spelling of aftergame.

Words near after-game in the dictionary

  1. after-eyed
  2. after-eyeing
  3. after-eyes
  4. after-eying
  5. after-five
  6. after-game
  7. after-games
  8. after-glow
  9. after-glows
  10. after-grass
  11. after-grasses

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