pregame
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A social gathering of friends who get together to drink before going out to a party or a sports game, in order to generate a slight feeling of intoxication before going out for the night.
noun
A television show preceding a sports game wherein commentators discuss that game.
noun
A period of time before an important event.
adj
Taking place before, or in preparation for, a sporting event or other game.
Example Sentences
- "When the Brooklyn Nets are in town, there are office parties and tieless finance guys and pregame groups, like the one that showed up Wednesday night to celebrate the reunion of two old friends with a meal and some basketball (the Miami Heat, led by LeBron James, later trounced the home team)."
- "P: And what was going on there at Griffin Suite? Julia: A pregame."
- ""Hey sport, do you want to watch the pregame?" asked Justin."
- "Izzy had gone to the bar to catch the pregame."
- "At the first Super Bowl, the pregame featured the marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling University."
- "You can see the entire thing on SpaceX’s website. It looks long—45 whole minutes!—but there’s really only a 20-minute pregame, and then the rocket takes off, and then it flies and the stages separate and then it lands."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Germanic *gamaną Proto-West Germanic *gaman Old English gamen Middle English game English game English pregame From pre- + game.