sudden death
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Noun[edit]
sudden death (countable and uncountable, plural sudden deaths)
- (countable) Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
- (sports, games) A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.
- Synonym: sudden victory
- (India, historical, slang) A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.
- 1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330:
- An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]
- 1892, Mary Thorn Carpenter, A Girl's Winter in India, page 209:
- Our next dish is one which has shown no signs of scarcity since we reached India, — the ever present chicken, or “sudden death,” as it is called here, from the Anglo-Indian custom of cooking a fowl that has been running about the garden half an hour before.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sudden, death.
Translations[edit]
instantaneous death
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mode of play
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Further reading[edit]
- “sudden death”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.