on the game
Working as a prostitute.
Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.
game
UK /ɡeɪm/ US /ɡeɪm/
noun 5adj 4verb 4
Definitions
noun
1
A playful or competitive activity.
Being a child is all fun and games.
2
A playful or competitive activity.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
Joshua: Shall we play a game? David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess? David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine.
3
A playful or competitive activity.
From time to time tracksuited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.
4
A playful or competitive activity.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
5
A playful or competitive activity.
adj
1
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 and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country.
2
That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
verb
1
To gamble.
an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
2
To play card games, board games, or video games.
“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. […]”
3
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.
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.
4
To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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.
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