game
/ɡeɪm/ verb B2- 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.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
He/she/it games · Past gamed · Past participle gamed · -ing form gaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- game
- He/she/it
- games
- Past
- gamed
- Past participle
- gamed
- -ing form
- gaming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He has driven game for us.
I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker’s assistant was a formidable man—a man who might play a deep game.
“I play the game for the game’s own sake,” said he.
“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow,” said he in the querulous voice of the sportsman whose game has failed him.
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