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brinkmate

noun

Etymology

From brink + mate. First attested in the British Shogi magazine in 1983.

  1. derived from *gamatjô✻
  2. derived from gimato
  3. derived from mate — “messmate”
  4. inherited from mate
  5. compounded as brinkmate — “brink + mate”

Definitions

  1. A situation in which an indefensible checkmate sequence will be created by the player's…

    A situation in which an indefensible checkmate sequence will be created by the player's next move.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for brinkmate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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