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kingmakes

kingmakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kingmake.

Meaning of kingmake

Verb

kingmake (third-person singular simple present kingmakes, present participle kingmaking, simple past and past participle kingmade)

  1. To use one's influence to help someone else into a position of political power.
    • Okay, you get on the extension in the other room and listen to me kingmake Percy President.1968, Keefe Brasselle, The Cannibals: A Novel about Television's Savage Chieftains, page 159
  2. To play so as to cause another player to win.
    • I do dislike it if part of the skill of playing consists of manipulating the people who are out of the running to get them to kingmake for you.2002 January 12, Kevin Lowe, “"Games and Politics" by Richard Garfield”, in rec.games.board (Usenet)

Questions about kingmakes

What is kingmakes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Kingmakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kingmake.

Words near kingmakes in the dictionary

  1. Kingma
  2. kingmade
  3. kingmake
  4. kingmaker
  5. kingmakers
  6. kingmakes
  7. kingmaking
  8. kingmakings
  9. Kingman
  10. Kingman County
  11. Kingman Reef

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