game
A playful or competitive activity.
Noun 4 meanings
A playful or competitive activity.
“Being a child is all fun and games.”
A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
“When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.”
Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
“In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.”
An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
Adjective 4 meanings
Willing and able to participate.
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.
Verb 3 meanings
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.”
Etymology
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
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GAME at a glance
GAME has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (G 2 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #171 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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