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put someone on game en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular) To inform someone (about something); to make someone aware (of something).
    • "Okay, let me put you on game. The crack heads out there love this coke. They a do anything for it. It's so many crack heads that live here and buy, that you going to be finished with that by tonight,” Maine said. Twenty fucking thousand? “Oh okay[…] 2014 June 27, Umar Quadeer, Enemy Bloodline, WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS, →ISBN:
    • Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game. 2024, “They Not Like Us”, performed by Kendrick Lamar:
    • "Let me put you on game about these niggas in New York. They don't care who you are or where you're from, if they see you have something, they gon' kill you to get it. You don't want to be sitting here worrying about Majestic when these[…]" 2016 March 17, Charmanie Saquea, When Your Hustling Days Are Gone: A Bad Boy Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
    • […] he put me on game about a bondsman. He knew not to talk drugs on the phone, so he asked me to meet him on the corner. I told him I was on the way. Moe had a phone number wrote down on a sheet of torn off paper. He handed it to me[…] 2019 September 29, Letitia Scott-Jackson, Grace & Favor: From Prison to Paid Vol. I, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 55:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
put someone on game Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put someone on game Tense=Past lexicographic
putting someone on game Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
puts someone on game Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic