Bake-Off

[ beyk-awf, -of ]

Trademark.

1. a baking contest in which competitors gather to prepare their specialties for judging.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bake-Off¹

bake + -off

Example Sentences

Sweating and exhausted, I decided that was enough — and far more than Bake-Off’s contestants would have time to do anyway — and switched to another common trick employed by the baking show’s competitors.

From Eater

Family Circle Recipe Contest Could the election be decided by bake-off?

From The Daily Beast

Example: “The chicken-parm-off… the guido version of a bake-off.”

From The Daily Beast