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try-off

try-off noun: a team event.

Noun

try-off (plural try-offs)

  1. A team event.
    • It had nothing to do with their defensive pattern or any strategy it was about backing your instincts, and for Ma'a to finish the try off like that was pretty special.2016, Tony Johnson, Lynn McConnell, Behind the Silver Fern: Playing Rugby for New Zealand
  2. An elimination round between competitors who are tied; especially one that takes a different form than previous steps of the competition.
    • On the try-off Watkins made 168 ft., the longest flight for the day.1910, Aeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, page 157
    • In the try-off for the grand championship, the Kansas Hereford yearlings were granted the royal purple.1922, A Review of the International Live Stock Exposition, page 114
  3. (foundry work) A test for clearance, bearings, and metal thickness of a mold.
    • Using corn flour for a tryoff, set the cores in the drag straight and level.1958, Foundry - Volume 86, Issues 7-12, page 50

Examples of try-off in a sentence

  • As an example of the best kind of spirit which can exist among competing teams and the pleasantest kind of atmosphere which can be created in one of these try-offs, we take off our hat to the W.O.D.L.1938, Curtain Call - Volumes 10-11, page 14:
  • It's logical that 2,000 models every year fight, scratch and claw their way up to the try-off elimination when it comes time to choose the new Miss Rheingold.1948, “The Rheingold Maidens”, in Sales Management, volume 60, page 8:

Forms of try-off

pluraltry-offs

Questions about try-off

What does try-off mean?
Try-off means a team event.
How do you use try-off in a sentence?
As an example of the best kind of spirit which can exist among competing teams and the pleasantest kind of atmosphere which can be created in one of these try-offs, we take off our hat to the W.O.D.L.
What part of speech is try-off?
Try-off is a noun.
What is the plural of try-off?
The plural of try-off is try-offs.

Words near try-off in the dictionary

  1. try-baby
  2. try-hard
  3. try-hards
  4. try-miter square
  5. try-miter squares
  6. try-off
  7. try-offs
  8. try-on
  9. try-ons
  10. try-out
  11. try-outs

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