Game that goes down to the wire

• Close contest
• Game that goes into overtime, e.g
• Brilliant playing - with energy - but losing line in tense moment
• Close game
• Rail bent badly across one in situation marked by tension
• Sudden-death game, say
• Tense situation

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Nailbiter is an ongoing independent horror comic book series that was created by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson, with art by Henderson. The series is published by Image Comics and its first issue was released on May 7, 2014. As of May 2016 the series ...

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n. (alternative spelling of nail-biter English)