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View synonyms for play-by-play
play-by-play
[ pley-bahy-pley ]
adjective
- pertaining to or being a detailed account of each incident or act of an event, as in sports:
a play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game.
noun
- a detailed and sequential description of a sports contest or other event, as by a sportscaster, usually as it is taking place.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of play-by-play1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
It will be the shocking play-by-play from inside the death chambers.
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Watch commentator Chris Webber make brilliant use of the telestrator, with a play-by-play of ice cream defense.
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But for these two puerile sports fans, the evening was almost as much about the play-by-play as how things turned out.
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Even worse, the two doulas next to me were in the midst of a loud-whispered play-by-play of what was going on on the screen.
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