English
Noun
garbage time (uncountable)
- (sports) The period at the end of a timed sporting event that has become a blowout when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will decide to replace their best players with substitutes.
- 1991, Kathleen Warnock, To the Top, p. 16:
- I play for two minutes of garbage time at the end of a blowout? Is that all the time I'm going to see anymore?
- 2012, Don Winslow, The Gentlemen's Hour: A Novel, p. 92:
- It was garbage time, really, but it was a chance to get Corey some playing time, and Pedersen was out of pitchers anyway.
- 2014, Jim Farrell, Kiss Me, Kate and Other Stories, p. 199:
- I usually just got in during garbage time, which there was a lot of that year as we rolled to another state championship.