parlor game

noun

: a game suitable for playing indoors

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The unique nature of the Celtics’ business has caused sales price estimates to range even more extremely than the typical parlor game among bankers, investors and team executives when a franchise hits the market. Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2024 Austin American-Statesman 0:00 0:41 One of the parlor games heading to the 2024 presidential election is, who has more to lose — Joe Biden or Donald Trump — if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets a place on the Texas ballot? John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 5 May 2024 What lies beyond the Wall is death itself; what happens down south, by comparison, is parlor games. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 June 2024 Ellison killed the most egregious psychopath among a clan of murderous brothers, who are now galloping across entire prairies to get revenge; there could be a fun parlor game counting up the Westerns based on this configuration. Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for parlor game 

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of parlor game was in 1854

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“Parlor game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlor%20game. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.

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