Joshua: Shall we play agame? David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a goodgame of chess? David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine.
(UK, in theplural) A school subject during whichsports are practised.
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have agame of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
I played golf with her that same afternoon. She lost eight balls, I remember. Eight. I had a terrible time getting her to at least open her eyes when she took a swing at the ball. I improved hergame immensely, though.
2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, inThe Guardian[1]:
There’s a sense here, as well as ingames such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.
I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. TheGame’s afoot:
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
“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”.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new greatgame is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.
I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the greatgame which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.
ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of thegame.
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated byTobias Smollett,Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:
[H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of thegame[translatingmugeresmoças], who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.
What is game? Who gotgame? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I gotgame, she's gotgame / We gotgame, they gotgame, he gotgame
2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell,Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation,→ISBN, page123:
In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American studentsgot game!
To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds bettergame in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
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One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I wasgame, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country.
Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirablygame Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
(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.
an impressive protest againstgaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
2017 June 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, inThe Guardian[3]:
“The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve beengaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing.[…]”
(transitive) To exploitloopholes in asystem orbureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
2012 August 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, inThe Guardian[4]:
A large batch of online trolls havegamed 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.
2020 February 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, inThe Guardian[5]:
“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easilygamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, inRAIL, number975, page34:
It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
2005 October 6, “Picking up the pieces”, inThe Economist[6]:
Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himselfgaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
2010, Mystery,The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books,→ISBN,page100:
A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way,gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
2010 July 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, inNew York Post[7]:
How did Amanda know she wasn’t gettinggamed? 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.”
You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time yourgame ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was sogame that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.
2010, Ricardo José Becker,Para Jogar O Ano Inteiro, Clube de Autores,page316:
Fora com os FPS! Que venham os rail shooters que esses sim me divertem um monte! E não é à toa que um dos meusgames favoritos do Nintendo Wii é justamente a coletânea deThe House of The Dead 2 and 3!
2013, Brunno Moreira,Restrição: Humanidade em crise..., Clube de Autores,page42:
Então, dentro do meu mundo tudo corria como deveria ser, jogando meusgames de realidade virtual com meus colegas espalhados pelo planeta, recebendo minha alimentação pelos meus tubos receptores do meu traje, isolado das agruras do mundo real, dentro do meu casulo de conforto tecnológico.
