postgame

[pohst-geym]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game.

   Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.

noun

1. a broadcast program that provides a report and analysis of a sports game that has just ended.

   I heard the Astros postgame on the car radio.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postgame¹

First recorded in 1930–35; post- ( def. ) + game ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Despite his postgame optimism, before the game Roberts warned of the same ominous signs.

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Harbaugh declined to elaborate on the situation in his postgame comments.

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“Some guys are built for this moment. He’s definitely one of them,” said third baseman Max Muncy, standing in the middle of the Dodgers’ batting cage during the team’s postgame celebration, his blue T-shirt soaked in champagne as a teammate poured beer over his head.

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Presumably to the chagrin of the ADF, perhaps the most egregious misrepresentations of the record in a recent “religious freedom” Supreme Court case came from a different Christian activist group: the First Liberty Institute, which in 2022 sought to vindicate high school football coach Joe Kennedy’s right to lead students in a postgame prayer at the 50-yard line.

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“But what’s truly unsustainable is keeping a good product on the floor while allowing officials to lose control of games. Fans see it every night. Coaches, both winning and losing, point it out every night in pre-game and postgame media, yet leadership just issues fines and looks the other way. They ignore the issues that everyone inside the game is begging to be fixed. That is negligence.”

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