Meanings (ES + gloss)
lúdico
Willing and able to participate.
"[…] 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…
Meanings (ES + gloss)
juego
A playful or competitive activity.
Being a child is all fun and games.
partido
A playful or competitive activity.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
caza • venación
Wild animals hunted for food.
I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh…
The forest has plenty of game.
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
burlar
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.
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 He…
We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
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