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video-game en · VERB

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of video game.
   alt of video game
   • Kerstin Wolgers made it through 82 years on this Earth without ever once checking an email, watching a YouTube clip or sending a tweet. But last week, as part of a crash course that introduced her to the Internet for the first time, the former Swedish actress did all three — plus Googled, Instagrammed, Wikipedia-ed, shopped, video-gamed … even online-dated, eventually. 2015 March 14, Caitlin Dewey, “Breaking down ‘digital divide’: Internet helps seniors cope better: Research”, in The Windsor Star, page D3:
   • The boys and girls stared at the TVs, they stared at the computers, they emailed, they chat-roomed, they video-gamed, they face-booked, they texted, and they twittered. 2009, Gary R. Kirby, Stories of Sunshine and Funtime of Wonder and Thunder of Mystery and Magic for the Young to Grow On, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:
   • By the time we fueled, shopped, phoned, ate, video-gamed, and shopped again (just in case a new shipment of chrome came in while we were at dinner), it was usually ten o’clock when we finally headed back to the truck and the bunk. 2000, Lianne Cain, Greetings! from Carl’s Corner, Texas, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN, page 107:
   • Next morning my son announces that he has teamed up with other youngsters, been for a midnight swim, hung around the ship’s 2000 Club, played shuffleboard, deck quoits and generally video-gamed the night away. 1996 August 25, Jill James, “QE2 bows to none in historical richness, magnificence, service”, in The Arizona Republic, 107th year, number 99, Phoenix, Ariz., page T13, column 2:
   • In the early dark hours, as armored vehicles rumbled across the border and warplanes filled the skies, people were sleeping, bathing, making love, video-gaming, soothing a sick child. 2023 February 19, Laura King, “War stories: ‘All of us were changed’”, in Los Angeles Times, page A1:

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