tiebreak

From tie +‎ break.

tiebreak (plural tiebreaks)

1. (sports) A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.
   • 1988, Anne Pittman, Tennis, page 100:

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

   • 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.

   • 2009 January 23, Bruce Matthews, “Gooch gets a hand”, in Herald Sun‎, archived from the original on 31 January 2009:

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

tiebreak (third-person singular simple present tiebreaks, present participle tiebreaking, simple past tiebroke, past participle tiebroken)

1. (sports) To break a tie.
   • 2014 February 13, “Judge and Triad Enforcer win tiebreak over two Doctors.”, in Sc2 Mafia‎:

     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).

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tiebreak m (plural tiebreaks)

1. (sports) tiebreak