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standoffsnounpl. of standoff a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the otherafter two hours they had played to a 5-5 standoff a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give inthe standoff continued for three days before the fugitive gave himself up to the authorities deadlocks, gridlocks, halts, impasses, logjams, Mexican standoffs, stalemates, standstills dead endsbinds, bottlenecks, corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, jams, morasses, pickles, pinches, plights, predicaments, quagmires, quandaries, spotsdifficultiesproblems |