stand-off

See also: stand off and standoff

English

Etymology

Deverbal from stand off.

Noun

stand-off (plural stand-offs)

1. (rugby) fly-half
   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.

2. Alternative form of standoff (sense 2).

References

• “stand-off”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• offstand