Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A children's game in which one player tries to find and catch others who are hiding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child's game in which one or more hide, and the others try to find them. Formerly called
hide-and-find .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game played by children, in which one child (who is “it”) covers his eyes for a short time while the other players hide, and then the one who is “it” tries to find the others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Variant of
hide and seek
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
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Examples
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It’s called hide-and-seek, and we’re going to play it like our lives depended on it.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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It’s called hide-and-seek, and we’re going to play it like our lives depended on it.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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It’s called hide-and-seek, and we’re going to play it like our lives depended on it.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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It’s called hide-and-seek, and we’re going to play it like our lives depended on it.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Sheldon plodded on, and decided that the old stereotyped duel was far simpler and easier than this protracted hide-and-seek affair.
Chapter 27 2010
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And then we played hide-and-seek with the blind man.
Chapter 35 2010
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Would they have had just played a simple game of hide-and-seek? would they not have been playing anything?
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According to a 2001 story in New York Newsday, the angel was the subject of a hide-and-seek game the next morning.
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What seems to have happened over the past year is that the hide-and-seek process in the financial intermediation process for mortgage loans to risky borrowers got out of hand.
Turmoil in Financial Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a young child, Pablo was a natural talent at hide-and-seek.
The Sanchez Ghost 2009
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