Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A second game played in order to reverse or improve the issues of the first; hence, the methods taken after the first turn of affairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.
- noun an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
second game played toreverse the issue of the first; themeans employed after the first turn ofaffairs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone knows there is an aftergame snack hierarchy.
The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007
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Phil felt all of sixteen again and remembered as if it were yesterday the repercussions of her aftergame tryst with Kyle Thompson under the bleachers.
Good Girl Gone Bad Karin Tabke 2006
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Adam; no hope, no aftergame for him as a sinner: yet let us peruse the obligations that lay upon him as a man.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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When this famous conference of which I told you some half an hour ago was ended, and our president, our monarch of morals and mulberries had quitted his chair and withdrawn, I played an aftergame of no small moment.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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At the worst, that is, if she found I was not disposed to be as virtuous as herself, she knew she might play an aftergame; and could easily relax by degrees from the severity of her chastity, accordingly as I made it worth her while.
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