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penalty shoot-out

 noun
     
Related topics: Football
penalty shoot-out [countable]
DSF an occasion when each team in a football match takes penalty kicks until one team misses the goal - used as a way of deciding which team will win when the ordinary part of the match has ended in a draw
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