games
/ɡeɪmz/
Dictionary
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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