sudden death

1. 1.

   (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf

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Questions about sudden death

What does sudden death mean?

sudden death means "(sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf".

Is sudden death a common word?

sudden death 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.