game mistress

Noun

game mistress (plural game mistresses, abbreviation GM)

1. A female game master.
   • His idea tonight was that he might need a full-time game master—or better, he thought, a game mistress, somebody cute and blond with gold-rimmed glasses. But game sales wouldn’t support a game mistress for long. So there’d have to be a time limit on the game. Say, one year. He pulled out a fresh...2000, John Sandford, chapter 10, in Gardner Dozois, editor, Easy Prey (Prey; 11), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 106
   • The Game Master/Mistress may lead the Magic Box Game (see Glossary).2012, Una McGinley Sarno, “Level III Alphabetic Paraphrase: Lesson Plan Unit Two”, in Learn to Think and Write: A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4–8, Introductory Levels, Lanham, Md.: Rowman &...