Game Definition
A subdivision of a set, consisting of a series of at least four consecutive serves by a single player.
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.
- In a position of advantage; winning or succeeding.
- To play a sport with great skill.
- The only one of its kind available:
- in the position of winning, esp. in gambling
- to die bravely and still fighting
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Game
- ahead of the game
- be on (one's) game
- the only game in town
- ahead of the game
- die game
- game away
- make game of
- off one's game
- play the game
- The Game
- the game is up
Origin of Game
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From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”), equivalent to ge- + man; or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”), equivalent to ge- + mind. Cognate with Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English gamen
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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