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play games

Verb

Meaning

play games (third-person singular simple present plays games, present participle playing games, simple past and past participle played games)

(idiomatic) To deceive; to lie about one's intentions.
Stop playing games with me and tell me the truth.

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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games. Gary Gygax

Life is more fun if you play games. Roald Dahl

Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. Barack Obama

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. Eugene Jarvis

I don't believe in flying saucers... The energy requirements of interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. Isaac Asimov

When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together. Jacob Bronowski

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