- playoff - any final competition to determine a championship
--1 is a kind of contest, competition
--1 has part: playoff game
--1 has particulars: World SeriesDerived form: verb play off1
- pit, oppose, match, play off - set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
--1 is one way to confront, face
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun playoff1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody