Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Time beyond an established limit, as:
- n. Working hours in addition to those of a regular schedule.
- n. Sports A period of playing time added after the expiration of the set time limit.
- n. Payment for additional work done outside of regular working hours.
- adv. Beyond the established time limit, especially that of the normal working day: The newspaper staff worked overtime.
- v. To exceed the desired timing for: overtime a photographic exposure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Time during which one works beyond the regular hours.
- During extra time: as, to work overtime.
- In photography, to allow too much time in exposure or other treatment.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The working time outside of one's regular hours
- n. sports, countable An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- n. uncountable The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- adv. Exceeding regular working hours.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
- n. (Sports) An extra period of time provided to play a game, beyond the end of the normal period allowed for the game, for the purpose of resolving a tie score.
WordNet 3.0
- n. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
- n. work done in addition to regular working hours
- adv. beyond the regular time
Etymologies
- over- + time (Wiktionary)
Examples
“` ` Usually the team that lands the first blow in overtime is the team that's going to get the momentum and get the win, '' West said.”
“To score a goal in overtime is something that I dreamed about, playing on the street.”
“To be able to play in overtime is a thrill that every hockey player looks forward to.”
“The first team that scores in overtime is normally the team that's going to win," Starks said.”
“They won't fully staff the officer/firefighter positions, and the overtime is the end result!”
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“The cost of your overtime is the only thing that stops you from being really shafted.”
“The Demon Deacons went 5-0 in overtime games, coming one victory away from matching an ACC record in that category.”
“Smith's knack for game-winning shots was something that he carried right through his buzzer-beater in overtime to beat Texas in the NCAA Tournament.”
“They then beat Rhode Island in overtime to advance to the title game.”
“THE BAD NEWS: The Cougars lost the Oregon game 82-80 in overtime, their third straight defeat to the Ducks, who were the Pac-10's 2009 last-place finishers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overtime’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
transistor, impaled, settee, sunspecs, neon, meccanic, infatuation, greenhouse, capers, consequence, excepted, helicopter and 112 more...
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Wordtime
wintertime, wartime, uptime, undertime, twotime, teatime, suppertime, summertime, springtime, spacetime, sometime, showtime and 31 more...
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OM2 Lesson 16
cookout, backyard, skewer, shish kebab, anyone, grill, hot, sheep, lamb, nobody, mistaken, somebody and 23 more...
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American Football
contact, sack, incomplete, complete, pass, fumble, run, blitz, overturn, touch, catch, control and 20 more...
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what time is it?
time stuff
will you look at ..., supper time, out of time, almost time, high time, wasting time, hammertime, sigh time, bedtime, just in time, overtime, half-time and 20 more...
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Inspiring
decade, collection, flutter, winged, born, senses, onto, present, dwell, past, wander, roam and 51 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 144
stop by, pool, overtime, caught up, peel, cop, bribe, supposedly, burglar alarm, put in, bars
Tweets
Looking for tweets for overtime.

Prolagus She called me up today
"Meet me down at the old café"
I jumped into the shower
I was getting my marching orders
"We need to talk
Step into my office, baby
I want to give you the job
A chance of overtime
Say, my place at nine?"
(Step into my office, by Belle and Sebastian) Jun 23, 2008