three-quarter time

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three-quarter time (plural three-quarter times)

  1. (sports) The interval between the third and fourth quarters of a sports match.
    • 2019 Ben Guthrie, AFL to enact heat policy for JLT this weekend Australian Football League, 1 March 2019. Accessed 13 May 2019.
      The quarter-time and three-quarter time breaks will run for eight minutes (increased from six minutes), while the half-time changeover period has been extended to 22 minutes rather than the usual 20 minutes.