And anyone who disagrees need look no further than the addition of adjectives to the gamer.
This means pretty much anyone, gamer or otherwise, can sit down and be dodging green shells within minutes.
Depending on the setting this allows the gamer to actually listen to his assailant.
Matt DeLuca profiles the gamer and the former Navy SEAL who were among the dead.
gamer or better fish than these bream no fisherman could desire.
"My, but you're gamer than ever, Fatty," retorted Barney with admiration.
No boy that ever lived was gamer than the little tan-faced cub.
And never had Duane bestrode a gamer, swifter, stancher beast.
"There ain't a gamer old bird in the valley than Pop," Jeff cried.
He was about thirty-eight and a gamer man never entered the ring.
1620s, "an athlete," agent noun from game (v.). Meaning "one devoted to playing video or computer games" is attested from 1999. Gamester is attested from 1590s but meant "prostitute" (cf. old slang the first game ever played "copulation"), later "a man fit and ready for anything, a player" (mid-17c.).
Old English gamen "game, joy, fun, amusement," common Germanic (cf. Old Frisian game "joy, glee," Old Norse gaman, Old Saxon, Old High German gaman "sport, merriment," Danish gamen, Swedish gamman "merriment"), regarded as identical with Gothic gaman "participation, communion," from Proto-Germanic *ga- collective prefix + *mann "person," giving a sense of "people together."
Meaning "contest played according to rules" is first attested c.1300. Sense of "wild animals caught for sport" is late 13c.; hence fair game (1825), also gamey. Game plan is 1941, from U.S. football; game show first attested 1961.
"lame," 1787, from north Midlands dialect, of unknown origin, perhaps a variant of gammy (tramps' slang) "bad," or from Old North French gambe "leg" (see gambol (n.)).
"brave, spirited," 1725, especially in game-cock "bird for fighting," from game (n.). Middle English had gamesome (adj.) "joyful, playful, sportive."
noun
A brave and enterprising player, esp one who works with pain or against the odds: what is known in the business as a gamer, a guy who pitches with pain, who wants the ball/ When Jean Fuggett played for the Dallas Cowboys, his teammates called him a gamer
[1980s+ Baseball & football; probably fr game, ''brave, determined''; in the 1620s the word meant ''an athlete,'' and the current sense is conceivably though improbably a survival]
noun
One's occupation; business; racket: He's in the computer game these days (1860s+)
Related Terms
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