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noun

1. Organized athletics
2. Often derisive or mocking jesting fun, sport

   "make game of a nervous player"

3. A procedure or strategy for gaining an end tactic
4. An illegal or shady scheme or maneuver racket
5. A target or object especially of ridicule or attack
6. Pluck

adjective

1. Willing or ready to proceed

   "were game for anything"

2. Having or showing a resolute unyielding spirit
3. Of or relating to game

   "game laws"

verb

1. To manipulate, exploit, or cheat in (a system, a situation, etc.) slyly or dishonestly for personal gain

   "game the tax system"

2. To play video games

   "Globally [in 2019], more than two billion people play video games, including 150 million Americans (nearly half the country's population), 60 percent of whom game daily."

3. To play for a stake gamble

   "Is it the interest of any man to steal, to game, to waste his health and mental faculties by drunkenness …? No. All these are roads to ruin."

4. To lose or squander by gambling
5. to manipulate, exploit, or cheat in (a system, a situation, etc.) slyly or dishonestly for personal gain
6. to play video games
7. to play for a stake : gamble

adjective

1. Being a body part and especially a limb that is usually permanently impaired in function

   "Despite his eyeglasses and his game leg, early in 1900 [Erskine] Childers volunteered for the Boer War."

noun

1. A ball (such as a football) presented to a player or coach in recognition of an outstanding contribution to a team victory

noun

1. A bird that may be legally hunted according to the laws especially of a state of the U.S.

noun

1. A newly introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in a significant way

noun

1. A look of intense determination on the face of a game player

noun

1. A fish of a family (Salmonidae) including salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes
2. Sport fish

noun

1. An immature domestic hen (such as a Cornish game hen) weighing usually less than two pounds and used especially for roasting