play booty

verb

To hustle (play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one).

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Meanings

verbplay booty (third-person singular simple present plays booty, present participle playing booty, simple past and past participle played booty)

present singular third person plays booty · participle present playing booty · participle past played booty · past played booty

  1. archaicidiomaticTo hustle (play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one).

    So that we understand what we ought to do; but when we come to deliberate, we play booty against ourselves

    1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
  2. archaicbroadlyfigurativelyidiomaticTo double-cross someone.

    Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that’s what’s wrong with you.

    1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
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