Aftergame

Quick meaning: Aftergame is a noun meaning (video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:

so many thousand faithfull and valiant English men, who left us in this libertie, bought with thir lives; losing by a strange after game of folly, all the battels we have wonn,

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;

Word Forms

• aftergames

Synonyms for aftergame

Depending on context, synonyms include rematch.

Antonyms for aftergame

Common opposites include foregame.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include replay, aftercast, round, backgame, follow-on, runoff.

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