__ the system (cheated)

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

   "… found that people who game don't necessarily like going far to place their bets …"

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

verb

1. To begin drinking alcohol before an event or activity (such as a party or a night out)

   "Her friends, all in their 20s and pregaming for a Saturday night out in the bars, nodded enthusiastically."

verb

1. To plan or conduct in the manner of a war game

   "… war-gamed an invasion …"

2. To conduct a war game