game

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A playful or competitive activity.

   • Being a child is all fun and games.
2. 2

   A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

   • When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
   • He's in the securities game somehow.
3. 3

   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.
   • I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:
   • “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”.
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   1. 4

      An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

   2. 5

      A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

      • You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
      • Your murderous game is nearly up.
      • It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
   3. 6

      Wild animals hunted for food.

      • The forest has plenty of game.
   4. 7

      The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.

      • He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
      • She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game
   5. 8

      Lovemaking, flirtation.

   6. 9

      Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)

      • ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of the game.
   7. 10

      Mastery

      Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

      • What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game
      • In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!
      • My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.
   8. 11

      Diversion, entertainment.

   9. 12

      Willing and able to participate.

      • "[…] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”
   10. 13

       That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded,…

       That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

   11. 14

       Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

   12. 15

       To gamble.

       • an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
   13. 16

       To play card games, board games, or video games.

       • “The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […]”
   14. 17

       To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the…

       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.
       • A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
       • “Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
   15. 18

       To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

       • Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
       • A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
       • 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.”
   16. 19

       Injured, lame.

       • 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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