Aftergame

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs. archaic

    "1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,” Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;"

  2. 2
    Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

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"1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,” Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;"

Etymology

From after- + game.

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