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fair game

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prey, quarry, target, fair gamenoun

    a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

    "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"

Wiktionary

  1. fair gamenoun

    Actions permissible by the rules.

  2. fair gamenoun

    A goal or an object that may legitimately be sought.

  3. fair gamenoun

    An acceptable subject of criticism, scrutiny, or mockery.

  4. fair gamenoun

    a game that is fair, that does not involve cheating, etc.

ChatGPT

  1. fair game

    A fair game is a game or competition in which all participants have an equal chance of winning and where the outcome depends largely on skill and luck, not on manipulation or cheating. It is characterized by impartiality, equitable rules, unbiased referees or judges, and a lack of favoritism towards any particular participant.

Wikidata

  1. Fair Game

    Fair Game is a 1995 action thriller film directed by Andrew Sipes. It stars Cindy Crawford as family law attorney Kate McQuean and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. Kirkpatrick ends up on the run to protect McQuean when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQuean. The film is based on Paula Gosling's novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into the 1986 Sylvester Stallone film Cobra. Locations used for the film included Coral Gables, Florida, Miami Beach, and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fair game in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fair game in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fair game in a Sentence

  1. Carly Fiorina:

    We as women, especially in presidential politics, need to play by the same rules as the men. If we want to play this game as equals, we need to play by the same rules, and that means our track record is relevant, and so I never make a personal comment about Hillary Clinton -- my criticism of her is fact-based, based on her actions and track record. And that is fair game.

  2. Jon Radulovic:

    To get into hospice you have to acknowledge that a cure isn't possible but any treatment that is palliative in nature is fair game.

  3. Donald Trump:

    Well if you look at the different situations, of course you could name many of them, I could get you a list and I'll have it sent to your office in two seconds. But there certainly were a lot of abuse of women, you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones, or any of them, and that certainly will be fair game, certainly, if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game.

  4. Cynthia Conti-Cook:

    As long as abortion and abortion-seeking related conduct is what is criminalized, all of that information can be totally fair game.

  5. Michael Dowse:

    There's no sponsorship. We never reached out to them for permission or anything like that, we vetted it all legally and stuff and the opinion was that because everyone uses it so much, it's fair game. As long as you're not derogatory about it and as long as you use it as it's used in real life and you're not making stuff up about how it's used, you're free to go. And it's a better title than 'Stiffed'.


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