action replay

English

Noun

action replay (plural action replays)

  1. In TV broadcasting, the re-showing of a short segment of action, especially slow-motion sporting action, shortly after it was broadcast live or in real-time.
  2. An event that seems to repeat something that has happened before.
    • 2009, "I've shared in the hell of the No 10 bunker", London Evening Standard, Friday 15 May 2009
      Gordon Brown's predicament is an action replay of the last days of John Major, and then some.
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