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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

... with all my heart! I thank you for the suggestion! I have not had a game of whist since we left the city. Ah, my child, we have had very stupid evenings here at home until you came and brought some life into the house. Clarence, draw out the card table. Cora, ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... the turning over to him of the Captain's quarters. The presence of the ladies now becomes positively embarrassing. The girls are bundled into one cabin just opposite that occupied by the Admiral. The game of "general-post" with a marine sentry in stockinged feet is very funny, and so are the attempts to explain matters to the "Old Man" next morning. After this everything ...

— The Ghost of Jerry Bundler • W. W. Jacobs and Charles Rock

... and hazardous adventure, like the stakes of the gambler upon the turn of the dice, or upon the figures of the sweat-cloth; a feverish impatience for success pushes everything to the verge of ruin, and only after it has toppled over the brink, and we have followed it, does the danger of the game we had been playing become apparent.—A second qualifies this view, and shouts, that our vice is not so much greed, which is the vice of the miser, as extravagance, which is the vice of the spendthrift; and that as soon as we get one dollar, we run in debt for ten. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... impossible but some will see in this desperate game of hazard a sort of courage on the part of the conspirators which may redeem their knavery. But the courage of desperation is seldom genuine, and least of all where the desperation itself was uncalled ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... years after, during the present century, there appears to have been very little of what we now know as "shooting rights," over any given lands, and the man or boy who could get behind an old flint-lock with a shooting certificate went wherever he felt inclined in pursuit of game. ...

— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston

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