Definition of matchup
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a boxing matchup that promises to be a sportswriter's dream
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This would be the toughest first-round matchup for Miami.
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This is a matchup between the best 3-point shooting team in the nation in Villanova (and all of college basketball according to the record book) and the best defending 3-point team in Michigan.
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This was a matchup between two of the four worst teams in the NBA.
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Nobody has had much success this season, and in what turned out to be an unexpectedly lopsided matchup between top seeds, Kansas (31-8) certainly didn’t Saturday night.
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Hinch thought Derek Fisher was a better matchup against him, slotting him ninth and in left field rather than Reddick, who went 0-for-7 in the first two games of the series.
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The only exception is the four annual matchups between 8 and 9 seeds, which are split evenly with 68 victories apiece since 1985.
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The Ramblers took a big lead of 23 points in the first matchup of No.
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In a matchup between two teams with identical records, the Bartlett girls basketball team knocked the West Eagles out of contention for a state tournament berth Wednesday at West High.
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First Known Use of matchup
1959
matchup Synonyms
Synonyms
bout, competition, contest, event, game, match, meet, sweepstakes (also sweep-stake), tournament, tourney;
Related Words
battle, conflict, scrimmage, skirmish, struggle, tug-of-war, tussle;
derby, field day, open, outing;
biathlon, decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon, triathlon;
marathon, race, ultramarathon;
round-robin, rubber, runoff, sudden death;
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