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play silly buggers

play silly buggers verb: to act in a stupid or reckless manner.

Verb

play silly buggers (third-person singular simple present plays silly buggers, present participle playing silly buggers, simple past and past participle played silly buggers)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner.
    • "Look," he said, "it's just fate playing silly buggers with you. With me. With us. It's a complete coincidence."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 95

play silly buggers meaning in Bengali

play silly buggers in Bengali

অত্যন্ত নির্বোধ, কাণ্ডজ্ঞানহীন আচরণ করা

Forms of play silly buggers

third-person singular presentplays silly buggers
present participleplaying silly buggers
past participleplayed silly buggers
pastplayed silly buggers
alternative formplay silly beggars

Questions about play silly buggers

What does play silly buggers mean?
Play silly buggers means to act in a stupid or reckless manner.
What is play silly buggers in Bengali?
Play silly buggers in Bengali is অত্যন্ত নির্বোধ, কাণ্ডজ্ঞানহীন আচরণ করা. See Play silly buggers meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is play silly buggers?
Play silly buggers is a verb.
What is the past tense of play silly buggers?
The past tense of play silly buggers is played silly buggers.

Words near play silly buggers in the dictionary

  1. play room
  2. play rooms
  3. play safe
  4. play second fiddle
  5. play silly beggars
  6. play silly buggers
  7. play small
  8. play someone at their own game
  9. play someone false
  10. play someone like a bass fiddle
  11. play someone like a fiddle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play silly buggers (page history and authors); play silly buggers (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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