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hide-and-seek
[ hahyd-n-seek ]
noun
- one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
hide-and-seek
noun
- a game in which one player covers his eyes and waits while the others hide, and then he tries to find them
Word History and Origins
Origin of hide-and-seek1
Idioms and Phrases
see play hide and seek .Example Sentences
She plays hide-and-seek with neighbors and doodles during her English lessons at the local school.
All these viruses play a perpetual game of hide-and-seek with the human immune system.
Redford describes playing many “mischievous hide-and-seek games testing each others boundaries” at her house.
Yes, Nursy, and we had a beautiful time playing hide-and-seek under the bedclothes.
I wish I could tell you what a lovely place home is for hide-and-seek.
Miss Laura had trained us to do all kinds of things with balls jumping for them, playing hide-and-seek, and catching them.
There was a game of hide-and-seek on the lawn, and when the shrieks and laughter were subsiding, some one began to sing within.
Her cheeks were pink and her dimples hard at work playing hide-and-seek with their own shadows, when she cranked the little car.
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