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hide-and-seek

[ hahyd-n-seek ]

noun

  1. 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

  1. a game in which one player covers his eyes and waits while the others hide, and then he tries to find them


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hide-and-seek1

First recorded in 1665–75

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Idioms and Phrases

see play hide and seek .

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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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