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mercy rule
noun
In sporting parlance, a rule that ends a one-sided contest prior to its natural conclusion.
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Is there a mercy rule?
But the mercy rule clearly helps.
"But I don't believe in the mercy rule.
We have a mercy rule in six-man football.
The mercy rule was not invoked, but it should have been.
If professional tennis had a mercy rule, it would have been invoked.
Some columnists have been arguing that hockey ought to institute a mercy rule.
"They didn't have any mercy rule in those days," he said recently.
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The team scored mercy-rule victories in three of their first four games.
Huntington Beach put the mercy-rule running clock into effect in the fourth quarter when its lead reached 40 points.
Yet another game that will require the invocation of the Snarkin' the NFL Mercy Rule.
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