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1. (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.Examples: ""[…] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”"; "One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I was game, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country."; "Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see."Synonyms: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiantAntonyms: cautious, disinclinedcolloquial

2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

1. (intransitive) To gamble.Examples: "an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence"intransitive

2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.Examples: "“The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […]”"intransitive

3. (transitive) 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.Examples: "We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system."; "A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing."; "“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins."transitive

4. (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.Examples: "Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number."; "A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him."; "How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”"slangtransitive

1. (of a limb) Injured, lame.Examples: "You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure.""; "He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed."