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walk-off

adjective

ˈwȯk-ˌȯf : ending a baseball game immediately by causing the winning run to score for the home team in the bottom of the last inning a walk-off homer also : won by the home team in the bottom of the last inning a walk-off win

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First Known Use

1990, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler The first known use of walk-off was in 1990 See more words from the same year

Rhymes for walk-off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff

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