tiebreak

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noun

A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.

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nountiebreak (plural tiebreaks)

plural tiebreaks

  1. hobbiesA tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.

    2003, Athanasios Papageorgiou, Willy Spitzley, Handbook for Competitive Volleyball, Meyer & Meyer, UK, page 297, If there have not been any major errors in the service reception, then the service reception strategy should not be changed during the tiebreak.

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    Should the score in the tiebreak become tied at 6 points all, play must continue until one player has a two point advantage.

    1988, Anne Pittman, Tennis, page 100

    Simon committed only one unforced error in the 47-minute opening set, which required a tiebreak to settle it.

    2009 January 23, Bruce Matthews, “Gooch gets a hand”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2009
verbtiebreak (third-person singular simple present tiebreaks, present participle tiebreaking, simple past tiebroke, past participle tiebroken)

present singular third person tiebreaks · participle present tiebreaking · past tiebroke · participle past tiebroken

  1. hobbiesTo break a tie.

    As the end of the game, game tiebroke in favor of triad, inexplicably. I thought that two people on different teams(even if nominally aligned), like a Triad and a Judge lost ties against single factions with more members(2 town).

    2014 February 13, “Judge and Triad Enforcer win tiebreak over two Doctors.”, in Sc2 Mafia, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2024

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APA

tiebreak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiebreak

MLA

“tiebreak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiebreak. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tiebreak,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiebreak.

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