two-minute warning

[ too-min-it ]

noun

, Football.

1. a timeout called by an official to notify both teams that two minutes remain in a half.

Example Sentences

The oversight committee also approved implementation of an NFL-style two-minute warning at the end of the second and fourth quarters.

From Seattle Times

Because McVay didn’t use his final timeout until after the two-minute warning, Goff needed only to take three knees in victory formation to send Ford Field into a frenzy.

From Seattle Times

But on the next play, Smith was sacked by Harold Landry setting up another key third down — this time Seattle needing 14 yards to convert, on a play that snapped after the two-minute warning.

From Seattle Times

It was the Steelers making the curious play calls while failing twice on fourth down in the second half, the first a flip from Trubisky to Jaylen Warren on fourth-and-2 that managed a single yard early in the fourth quarter, the second a heave down the right sideline to a heavily covered Diontae Johnson just before the two-minute warning that fell incomplete.

From Washington Times

But two incompletions and a short gain brought up fourth-and-six just after the two-minute warning.

From Los Angeles Times