Crooked; lame: as, a game leg.
To play at any sport or diversion.
To gamble; play for a stake, prize, or wager with cards, dice, balls, etc., according to certain rules. See gaming.
To be glad; rejoice; receive pleasure: sometimes used impersonally with the dative.
To stake or lose at play; gamble (away).
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Specifically— A part of a rubber. The victors in two games out of three win the rubber.
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One of the points to be scored in all-fours, as high, low, jack, and the game.
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The number of players necessary, or required by the rules, for playing a game; a ‘set.’
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In old archery, a meeting or public competition of archers.
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Mirth; amusement; play; sport of any kind; joke; jest, as opposed to earnest: as, to make game of a person, or of his pretensions or actions (now the chief use of the word in this sense). See to make game of, below.
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A play or sport for amusement or diversion.
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A contest for success or superiority in a trial of chance, skill, or endurance, or of any two or all three of these combined: as, a game at cards, dice, or roulette; the games of billiards, draughts, and dominoes; athletic games; the Floral games.
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The art or mode of playing at a game: as, he plays a remarkable game.
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The successful result of a game, or that which is staked on the result: as, the game is ours.
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The requisite number of points or advantages to be gained in order to win a game: as, in cribbage 61 is game or the game.
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A scheme; plan; project; artifice.
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Amorous sport; gallantry; intrigue.