parlour game

See also: parlour-game

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Noun

parlour game (plural parlour games)

  1. Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.
    Hypernym: game
    Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:game
    Near-synonym: party game
    • 1918, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Foe-Farrell, Prologue:
      Do you know that parlour-game, Yarrell dear? Are you a performer at Musical Chairs?
    • 2024 November 22, Theodore Schleifer, “Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      Doubts abound as to whether he will graduate in 2028 with a four-year degree in Trumpism: It is now a parlor game in Washington and Silicon Valley to speculate just how long the Musk-Trump relationship will last.
      (Can we archive this URL?)
  2. (politics, figuratively) The use of deliberately nebulous or confusing language.
    Synonym: doublespeak

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