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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.

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. 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'.

  2. Hulk Hogan:

    I started having, like Oprah has, these ‘aha’ moments. … Everybody’s a celebrity,’ I thought. ‘Oh, my God, they’re gunning for everybody. Everybody is fair game. And then 4-year-olds, too?’ apparently, [Denton’s] pretty darn talented, I’d love to see these guys do a 180 and just do good stuff and just get legit,’’ Hogan said.

  3. Ted Cruz:

    Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated the grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story. That's fair game, what the team should have done is send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out. That was a mistake from our end, and for that I apologize to Dr. Carson.

  4. 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.

  5. Jill Biden:

    My family is not fair game, joe is running against him, thats different. Not my children.


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