black game

British  

noun

1. another name for black grouse

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black game

Dressed in their black game jersies, they laughed and teased one another like privileged children of royalty.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Nor does the loss of our black game prove the only gap in the Fauna Selborniensis; for another beautiful link in the chain of beings is wanting. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley

And I daresay good shooting there too, with black game and such like.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various

You see, sir, as I said to Peter here, black game don’t seem in our way—didn’t I, Peter?”

From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Stanley L. Wood

I know to some black game, far away up the hill.

From Fern's Hollow by Hesba Stretton