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viddy game

viddy game

9.6
A game you play on a computer or game console
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪdi ɡeɪm/
  • Slang
translation icon : videojuego
  • After school, the kids met online to play a newly released viddy game.

Examples

  • He spent hours trying to beat the final boss in his favorite viddy game.

  • She writes reviews for a popular blog about the latest viddy games.

  • I love playing viddy games on weekends.

  • Have you tried that new viddy game yet?

  • After school, the kids met online to play a newly released viddy game.

  • He spent hours trying to beat the final boss in his favorite viddy game.

  • Have you tried that new viddy game yet?

Synonyms

video game
vsviddy game
277 1.0

A game you play by controlling pictures on a screen

is an informal slang term rather than the neutral standard term

Surface Forms

viddy game singular
viddy games plural

Morphology

viddy + game

The phrase is compositionally built from a colloquial/clipped form 'viddy' (a slang variant of 'video') plus 'game', so its meaning 'video game' is directly derivable from the constituents. Although 'viddy' is slang and may be unfamiliar or absent from dictionaries, a learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

The noun viddy game comes from a playful shortening of the word 'video' to viddy, with game added, so it became an informal name for a 'video game'.