A-game Definition

āgām
noun
The best performance a competitor is capable of in a sports contest.
We'll have to bring our A-game to defeat the league champions.
American Heritage

One's best effort.

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Other Word Forms of A-game

Noun

Singular:
A-game
Plural:
a-games

Origin of A-game

  • From the use of the letter A to indicate the best

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

A-game Sentence Examples

  • All he needed was to figure out how to win a game of strategy he didn.t know how to play, before his time was up and he lost the only thing that mattered.

  • Their generals substituted heavy-armed cavalry for the old militia, and introduced systems of campaigning which reduced the art of war to a game of skill.

  • They have many games and sports, including boxing, wrestling (both in and out of water), hill-sliding, spear-throwing, and a game of bowls played with stone discs.

  • Gladys Turnbull was pounding away on a lap top computer in a corner of the parlor while young Martha and Donnie played a game of Old Maid on the sofa.

  • In Pall Mall and the neighbouring Mall in St James' Park is found the title of a game resembling croquet.

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