game
/ɡeɪm/noun
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A playful or competitive activity.
A video game.
(nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
Example: He's in the securities game somehow.
Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
Example: In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
verb
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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.
Example: We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
(of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective
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Willing to participate.
(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.
Injured, lame (of a limb).