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sprint finish

sprint finish noun: a sprint at the end of a race, usually to decide the winner.

Noun

sprint finish (plural sprint finishes)

  1. A sprint at the end of a race, usually to decide the winner.
    • It was the first marathon I'd ever taken part in – and, unbelievably, I won. I needed a sprint finish to do it, too. Honestly, there couldn't have been anything more than the thickness of a vest.2016, Michael McEwan (main author, maybe some other runner actually wrote this bit), Running the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon
    • It was a sprint finish and I won by a tiny margin, but I beat some notable senior national level runners for the first time2021, Emma Carney, Jane E Hunt, Hard Wired: Life, Death and Triathlon
  2. (broadly) A hurried commotion at the end of a long process
    • If you need to make a sprint finish to your date or get held up in traffic, this will just add to the pressure!2023, Hayley Quinn, Do This, Not That: Dating

Forms of sprint finish

pluralsprint finishes

Questions about sprint finish

What does sprint finish mean?
Sprint finish means a sprint at the end of a race, usually to decide the winner.
What part of speech is sprint finish?
Sprint finish is a noun.
What is the plural of sprint finish?
The plural of sprint finish is sprint finishes.

Words near sprint finish in the dictionary

  1. sprinkly
  2. Sprinks
  3. sprint
  4. sprint car
  5. sprint cars
  6. sprint finish
  7. sprint finishes
  8. sprintable
  9. sprinted
  10. sprinter
  11. sprinters

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