head-to-head

Adjective

• inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition
  • as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck
    
  • the election was a nip and tuck affair
    

• involving two persons; intimately private
  • a tete-a-tete supper
    
  • a head-to-head conversation
    

Adverb

• even or close in a race or competition or comparison
  • the horses ran neck and neck
    
  • he won nip and tuck
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  neck and neck , nip and tuck , tete-a-tete