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Game

noun

1.

A contest with rules to determine a winner.

2.

A single play of a sport or other contest.

3.

An amusement or pastime. "He thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time" , "His life was all fun and games"

4.

Animal hunted for food or sport.

5.

(tennis) a division of play during which one player serves.

6.

(games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win. "He is serving for the game"

7.

The flesh of wild animals that is used for food.

8.

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal). Synonyms: plot, secret plan. "I saw through his little game from the start"

9.

The game equipment needed in order to play a particular game.

10.

Your occupation or line of work. Synonym: biz. "She's in show biz"

11.

Frivolous or trifling behavior. "For him, life is all fun and games"

verb

(past & past part. gamed; pres. part. gaming)

1.

Place a bet on. Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, punt, stake. "I'm betting on the new horse"

adjective

1.

Disabled in the feet or legs. Synonyms: crippled, gimpy, halt, halting, lame. "A game leg"

2.

Willing to face danger. Synonyms: gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky.

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"Game" Quotes from Famous Books

... some matters about which they cannot agree by "tossing up a penny," or by "drawing cuts." In a game of ball they determine "first innings" by "tossing the bat." Differences in a game of marbles, they settle by guessing "odd or even," or by "trying it over to prove it." In all these modes of adjustment there is an appeal to chance. Probably behind ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... most convenient things to have for a small family, as it warms over in a variety of ways, and in some is actually better than when put on the table as a joint. By having a little fish one day, instead of soup, and a little game another, and remembering when you have an especially dainty thing, to have one with it a little more substantial and less costly, you may have ...

— Culture and Cooking - Art in the Kitchen • Catherine Owen

... paid little enough heed to the ordinary humans, except for considering them fair game for plundering when they came uninvited into trailman country. But they, with all Darkover, revered the Hasturs, and it was a fine point of diplomacy—if the Darkovans sent their most important leader, they might listen ...

— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... forms of the four other men. He bent over one of them; his hand, burning with the fever from his wound and excitement, touched the cheek of the man instead of the mouth. The sailor cried out instantaneously even before he was awake; and Claw-of-the-Eagle, realizing in a second that his game was up, slashed out with his knife at him in passing as he ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... on with a thumping heart—found the name of a young author he had barely heard of, saw the title of a play, a "poetic drama," dance before his eyes, and dropped the paper, sick, disgusted. It was true, then—she WAS "game"—it was not the manner but ...

— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton

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