gamer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamer
Example Sentences
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How did gamer culture help broaden that audience?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
An avid gamer, he had won $20,000 at a gaming competition only months before the incident, his attorneys said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
A lifelong gamer, Spencer joined Microsoft in 1988 as an intern while in college.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
As a first-year computer science student in Hanoi, Hoang Le started trading crypto from his university dorm room, egged on by his gamer friends who were making a killing.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
LlamaNoDrama11 was her gamer name, and it seemed like complaining about having a bad day at school might break that rule.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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