hide and seek

See also: hide-and-seek

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hide and seek (uncountable)

  1. (playground games) A game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:
      I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.

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