playoff
Syllables: play·off
playoff noun: a final game in a series needed to break a tie.
Noun
playoff (plural playoffs)
- A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
- A short series of games to select a league champion.
- A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
- A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
playoff meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
playoff in Hindi
- प्लेऑफ, प्लेऑफ़
playoff in Tamil
- பிளேஆஃப், பிளேஆப்
playoff in Telugu
- ప్లేఆఫ్
playoff in Malayalam
- പ്ലേഓഫ്
More languagesFewer languages
- playoff in Kannada
- ಪ್ಲೇಆಫ್
- playoff in Punjabi
- ਪਲੇਆਫ, ਪਲੇਆਫ਼
- playoff in Gujarati
- પ્લેઓફ, પ્લેઑફ
- playoff in Nepali
- प्लेअफ
Examples of playoff in a sentence
- The team did OK in the playoffs.
- After missing the playoffs for the seventh straight season in a row, the Detroit Red Wings are trying to rebuild.
- Since they failed to make it to the playoffs after five consecutive seasons, the team has gone through a lengthy rebuild.
Forms of playoff
| plural | playoffs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | play-off |
Origin of playoff
Deverbal from play off; by surface analysis, play + -off.
Words formed from playoff
Phrases with playoff
Questions about playoff
- What does playoff mean?
- Playoff means a final game in a series needed to break a tie.
- What is playoff in Hindi?
- Playoff in Hindi is प्लेऑफ, प्लेऑफ़. See Playoff meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is playoff?
- Playoff is a noun.
- What is the plural of playoff?
- The plural of playoff is playoffs.
Words near playoff in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: playoff (page history and authors); playoff (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); playoff (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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