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play-by-play

[ pley-bahy-pley ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

pertaining to or being a detailed account of each incident or act of an event, as in sports:
a play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game.

a detailed and sequential description of a sports contest or other event, as by a sportscaster, usually as it is taking place.

First recorded in 1925–30

It will be the shocking play-by-play from inside the death chambers.

Watch commentator Chris Webber make brilliant use of the telestrator, with a play-by-play of ice cream defense.

But for these two puerile sports fans, the evening was almost as much about the play-by-play as how things turned out.

Even worse, the two doulas next to me were in the midst of a loud-whispered play-by-play of what was going on on the screen.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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