(sports) A penalty for a serious infraction of the rules in which the player is ordered to leave for the rest of the game; red card
2009, Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, →ISBN, page 333:
A send-off occurs when a player commits a serious violation and is ordered by the referee to leave the field for the rest of the game.
2009, Shireen Lolesi, Wives and Girlfriends, →ISBN, page 12:
Some of the players tried to heavy or sweet-talk the referee into reversing his decision, even as the threat of a send-off loomed.
2011, Sean Fagan, Dally Messenger III, The Master, →ISBN:
Dally had a running battle with the referee, who accused him of kneeing an opponent — though, given a punch was enough to earn a send-off, perhaps the official was unsure of what he saw as Dally was not asked to leave the field.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given a fitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
1988, Charles Rey, Neil Parsons, Michael Crowder, Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries, 1929-1937, →ISBN, page 180:
The medicine man gave the faithful animal a proper send-off into its next spiritual world.
2011, Philippe Besson, In The Absence Of Men, →ISBN:
You say: you should have seen it, you should have seen the send-off, the cheering crowds following us to the train, everyone joyful, clapping and shouting, cheering us on, it was like a festival to the triumphant sound of the Marseillaise.
2012, Binoo K. John, The Last Song Of Savio De Souza, →ISBN:
In that coast of send-offs and farewells, how did one more send-off matter?
