Usually means: Confrontation or competition between rivals.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. face-off, face off: Merriam-Webster
  2. face-off, face off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. face-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. face-off, face-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. face-off, face off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Face-Off, Face-off, face-off: Wordnik
  7. face-off, face off: Wiktionary
  8. face-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. face-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. face-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. face-off, face off: Dictionary.com
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  13. face-off, face off: Rhymezone
  14. face-off, face off: FreeDictionary.org
  15. face-off, face off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. face-off, face off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Face Off (season Face+Off+++(season+++1)): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. face off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. face-off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. face off: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. face-off: ESL Slang page
  2. face off: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Face off: Sports Definitions

(Note: See face_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (face off)

noun:  (sports, chiefly ice hockey) The starting point in a match of ice hockey, where two players face each other to snatch the puck.
noun:  (literal or figurative) A face-to-face confrontation, especially a bitter one.
verb:  (intransitive) To confront (each other).

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