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A playful or competitive activity.
#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
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#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
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#*1983 , Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, and Walon Green, (WarGames) , MGM/UA Entertainment Co.:
#*:Joshua: Shall we play a game ?
#(label) A particular instance of playing a game; match .
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#*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
#That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
#The number of points necessary to win a game.
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#(label) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
#(label) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
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A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
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Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
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*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games ,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli
, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.}}
An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
(label) Wild animals hunted for food.
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The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
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(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
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*(Blackwood Magazine)
*:Your murderous game is nearly up.
*(George Saintsbury) (1845-1933)
*:It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
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* (synonyms to be checked) pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety
* (instance of gameplay) match
* (field of gainful activity) line
* (military) wargame
* (business or occupation) racket
* (questionable practices) racket
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* (antonyms to be checked) drudgery, work, toil
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Adjective
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(colloquial) Willing to participate.
* (rfdate) (computer game):
- I'm game , would you like to tell me how [to do that]?
(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
Injured, lame (of a limb).
* around 1900 , O. Henry,
- You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
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* (willing to participate) sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant
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* (willing to participate) cautious, disinclined
Verb
( gam)
To gamble.
To play games and be a gamer.
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.
(transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
* 2005 , " Picking up the pieces ", The Economist , 6 October 2005:
- Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
* 2010 , Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction , Villard Books (2010), ISBN 9780345518217, page 100 :
- A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
* 2010 , Sheila McClear, " Would you date a pickup artist? ", New York Post , 9 July 2010:
- How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed ? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off . . . yet we somehow couldn’t.”
Derived terms
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vendor Alternative forms
* vender
Noun
A person or a company that vends or sells.
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* merchant
* seller
Related terms
* vend
* vending machine
* vendor bid
See also
* Spanish: vender (to sell)
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