tiebreaker in English

noun
1
a means of deciding a winner from competitors who have tied, in particular (in tennis) a special game to decide the winner of a set when the score is six games all.
If the late Jimmy van Alen hadn't invented tennis' tiebreaker in the 1960s, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi might still be playing.
synonyms:rubber matchdeciding gamedeciding roundplayoffgame-deciderovertimeOTsudden deathsudden-death overtime
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1. As mayor, I get to cast the tiebreaker.

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3. Bruiser tied for the PBR title in 2016 with two other bulls (his brother, SweetPro’s Long John, and Pearl Harbor), and the tiebreaker went to him

4. — Jared Spurgeon had two goals, and Nico Sturm scored the tiebreaker as the Minnesota Wild beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Wednesday night and swept the teams' two-game set.

5. The Clippers (27-16) moved within four games of West-leading Utah, and while catching the Jazz — who own the season-series tiebreaker — seems unlikely, Phoenix and the Lakers are just 1½