aftergame

noun

Etymology

From after- + game.

  1. derived from *men-
  2. inherited from *gamaną
  3. inherited from *gaman
  4. inherited from gamen
  5. inherited from game
  6. prefixed as aftergame — “after + game

Definitions

  1. A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first

    A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.

    • 1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,” Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;
    • 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,
    • Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:
  2. Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA