aftergame

From after- +‎ game.

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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.

   Synonym: rematch

   Antonym: foregame

   • 1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,”

     Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;

   • 1660, John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth‎, London, page 24:

     so many thousand faithfull and valiant English men, who left us in this libertie, bought with thir lives; losing by a strange after game of folly, all the battels we have wonn,

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato‎, London: J. Tonson, act III, scene 1, page 43:

     Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:

2. (video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

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