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gamer

[gey-mer] / ˈgeɪ mər /
NOUN
video game player
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An avid gamer, he had won $20,000 at a gaming competition only months before the incident, his attorneys said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

As a first-year computer science student in Hanoi, Hoang Le started trading crypto from his university dorm room, egged on by his gamer friends who were making a killing.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Luckey, a gamer known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts, co-founded the virtual reality company Oculus, which was purchased by Facebook in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Connor had recently qualified as an HGV driver and was on a visit to Scotland with his friend Lewis to visit fellow online gamer Reece Williams, whose girlfriend was Colville.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park