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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:

    Any former president is fair game. Donald Trump threw George W. Bush under the bus several months ago. Any former president is fair game.

  2. Hillary Clinton:

    One can disagree with the particulars of the agreement to put a lid on the nuclear weapons program of Iran, and that is fair game. But this steps over the line.

  3. Fox News:

    She was the shining star ofthe royal family at the time, and frankly many people at the time said Prince Charles didn't like that, princess Diana was the people'sprincess, the one that peopleturned to so when the divorce orwhen the marriage broke down,people started to side with herand they didn't like that.As soon as she spoke to thepress, she kind of cross thatline… When she came out andget that big interview it wasalmost as if the gloves came offand she was fair game for therest of the press and it was really at thatpoint we started to see themhound her.

  4. 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.

  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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