Meaning of garbage time | Babel Free

Definitions

The period at the end of a timed sporting event that has become a blowout when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will often decide to replace their best players with substitutes.

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Examples

“I play for two minutes of garbage time at the end of a blowout? Is that all the time I'm going to see anymore?”

“It was garbage time, really, but it was a chance to get Corey some playing time, and Pedersen was out of pitchers anyway.”

“I usually just got in during garbage time, which there was a lot of that year as we rolled to another state championship.”

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