(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.

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(India, historical, slang) A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.

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; […]

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Sense（4）

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

sudden deaths

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