What is "face-offs"

Usage examples of "face-offs".

At quiet moments in the past they had indulged in calculation face-offs, and sometimes—to Tally's amazement—Steven Graves held his own.

Bands of marauding seven-year-olds were braving the fierce snow to harass weary homegoing widows on Flatbush Avenue, and boys armed with needle torches were gleefully cutting the bars on the lion cages in Prospect Park Zoo, and rival gangs of barely pubescent prostitutes, bare-thighed in gaudy thermal undershifts and aluminium coronets, were holding their vicious nightly territorial face-offs at Grand Army Plaza.