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"3": "playoff"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English playoff",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English playoff.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "playoffs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "playoff m (plural playoffs)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Rhymes:Spanish/of",
"Rhymes:Spanish/of/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from English",
"Spanish terms derived from English",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Spanish unadapted borrowings from English",
"es:Sports"
],
"glosses": [
"playoff"
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"playoff",
"playoff#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sports) playoff"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "eliminatoria"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Royal Spanish Academy"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pleˈʝof/"
},
{
"ipa": "[pleˈʝof]"
},
{
"ipa": "/pleˈʝof/",
"note": "everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay"
},
{
"ipa": "[pleˈʝof]",
"note": "everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay"
},
{
"ipa": "/pleˈʃof/",
"note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
},
{
"ipa": "[pleˈʃof]",
"note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
},
{
"ipa": "/pleˈʒof/",
"note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
},
{
"ipa": "[pleˈʒof]",
"note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
},
{
"rhymes": "-of"
}
],
"word": "playoff"
}
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