mexican standoff

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   a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner

   Broadersituation

Questions about mexican standoff

What does mexican standoff mean?

mexican standoff means "a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner".

Is mexican standoff a common word?

mexican standoff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.