WordNet
n. one game in the series of games constituting a playoff
Usage examples of "playoff game".
When they lost that playoff game by a single run, it cast a pall over the state for years to come.
Most could make an arena ball playoff game look like a ballroom dance.
Skip Wiley reprimanded for impersonating National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in an effort to obtain box seats to an NFL playoff game.
It was just like when the Quad Cities Whiplash scored a winning goal with one second remaining in a playoff game, thought Floyd Wayne Vishniak, standing just below the dais, a stone's throw from William A.
During a crucial pre-playoff game, three of their four best players had somehow fouled out before three minutes of the third quarter were gone.
He still had to fly a National Football Conference playoff game and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans before the Super Bowl.