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play something with someone or something

1. to play a game with someone or a group. Do you want to play checkers with me? Fran played ball with the dog for a while.

2. to assume a particular role with someone or some group. Don't play the fool with me! Don always tried to play the successful entrepreneur with the board of directors.

See also: play

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Let us make an image out of snow,--an image of a little girl,--and it shall be our sister, and shall run about and play with us all winter long. The Snow Image by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context It was the only tune she knew, but that she could play with one finger. The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context They also know how to play with false dice; and so eagerly did I find them playing, that they perspired thereby. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context			play on heartstrings play out play out of your skin play over play part play politics play possum play Russian roulette play safe play second fiddle play silly buggers play the devil with play the field play the fool play the game play the heavy play the market play the ponies play through play to play to the gallery play tricks on play trump card play up play up to play with play with a full deck play with fire play-by-play description played out plead plead for plead guilty to plead to plead with please please oneself pleased as Punch pleased for pleased to meet you pleased with pleasure pledge plenty plenty of plight troth to plod plod along plod away at plod through plonk down			play to Play to Air Play to Modify Games play to the crowd play to the gallery Play to Win play tricks play tricks on play tricks upon Play Troops play truant play truant play trump card play up play up play up play up play up play up Play up pompey Play Up Pompey, Pompey Play Up Play Up Sky Blues play up to play up to play up to play up to play up to play up to play upon play upon words play with play with (oneself) play with (oneself) play with (oneself) play with (oneself) play with (oneself) play with a full deck play with a full deck play with a full deck play with a full deck play with a full deck play with a full deck Play with Cake Walk play with fire play with fire play with fire play with fire play with fire play with fire Play Your Aces Play Your Position Play, Inc. Play, Observe, Record, Support, Extend & Evaluate play-act play-act play-acted play-acted play-acting play-acting play-action pass play-actor

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