aftergame

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From after- +‎ game.

Noun[edit]

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,”[1]
      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[2], 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[3], 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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