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games

/ɡeɪmz/
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noun

  • A playful or competitive activity.
  • A video game.
  • (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

    "He's in the securities game somehow."

  • Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

    "In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often."

  • An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  • Wild animals hunted for food.

    "The forest has plenty of game."

  • (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

    "He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game."

  • Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
  • A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

    "You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?"

verb

  • To gamble.
  • To play card games, board games, or video games.
  • To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

    "We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system."

  • (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

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