sudden death

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sudden death (countable and uncountable, plural sudden deaths)

1. (countable) Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
2. (sports, games) A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.

   Synonym: sudden victory

3. (India, historical, slang) A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.
   • 1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330:

     An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]

   • 1892, Mary Thorn Carpenter, A Girl's Winter in India, page 209:

     Our next dish is one which has shown no signs of scarcity since we reached India, — the ever present chicken, or “sudden death,” as it is called here, from the Anglo-Indian custom of cooking a fowl that has been running about the garden half an hour before.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sudden,‎ death.

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