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game
noun- an athlete’s style and ability US
- — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 1997
- You like Kobe’s game? I do. — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- a person’s style, visual and oral US
- Now the monkey had practiced his game till it was sharp as glass / And keep in his heart he knew he could kick the baboon’s ass. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 31, 1976
- You look at any dude out here got a real strong game together like I do, it’s cause they got theyself a strong lady like this one. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 183, 1977
- He talked game with him at every chance, lectured him on the pimping code[.] — Alix Shulman, On the Stroll, p. 56, 1981
- But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night. — Hustle and Flow, 2004
- a conventional attitude UK
A counterculture concept that refuses to accept non-drop-out society as anything more than a game with unnecessary rules. - — Burton H. Wolfe, The Hippies, 1967
- a criminal activity; crime as a profession UK, 1739
- Once these guys got hip to themselves and went into the bootlegging game, big money started to show up. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 20, 1946
- This game’s too risky for the small amount of dough we get out of it. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 20, 1956
- I couldn’t wait to get out the game and get into the media lark. — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 20, 2001
- business AUSTRALIA, 1877
- “She’s a cow of a game,” said Tom. — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 164, 1941
- — Dominic Healy, A Voyage to Venus, p. 128, 1943
- Yer look a bit posh ter me for this game. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 35, 1957
- an attempt to con US
- Bart, I know when I hear it. You’re trying to hustle me for two grand. — Charles W. Moore, A Brick for Mister Jones, p. 142, 1975
- sex appeal US
- — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, Fall 1999
- an interest in the opposite sex US
- “You got game?” continued Cochrane. “You can play some ball?” — The Observer, p. 19, 18 March 2001
- a romantic or sexual relationship outside your primary relationship UK
Synonymous with PLAY AROUND;ON THE GAME - I began to have a strong sus that Billie was having games although I was still getting letters and she was still coming to see me every month. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 44, 1958
▶ give the game away
to cease doing something; to abandon; to give up AUSTRALIA, 1953- He hid his face in his arms, trembling. “Let him be, Lash,” I whispered. “He’s given the game away.” — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 129, 1954
- If I couldn’t run two homes on ten thousand quid I’d give the game away. — John Morrison, Stories of the Waterfront, p. 28, 1962
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 40, 1977
▶ on the game
to be working as a prostitute UK, 1898- His old woman who was a brass on the game down the Baze. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 8, 1958
- When I first went on the game, it seemed to me that I was meeting a gallery of widely various and interesting people. — Anonymous Streetwalker, p. 14, 1959
- [T]he eldest daughter is on the game and has three kids by different fathers[.] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 137, 1999
▶ out of the game
married, engaged or dating only one person US- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
▶ run a game
to fool, to swindle US, 1940- Jinx had a pretty long run, then he tried to run a game on a friend of mine. Shakedown. So much per week ‘cause I’m bad. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 15, 1975
- Oh, so you trying run that game, huh? — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
▶ the game
the business of prostitution UK, 1898- Probably this was her way of letting me know that she would be available if I would give up the game. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 137, 1972
- Pimps often call themselves “the players” and their profession “The Game[.]” — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 10, 1972
- The game is deep. In being a mack, you’re supposedly the supreme being of man. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 39, 1972
- You see, my dear reader, I lived true to the code of the game. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 156, 1973
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 55, 1996
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