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played silly buggers

played silly buggers is the simple past and past participle of play silly buggers.

Meaning of play silly buggers

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

Questions about played silly buggers

What is played silly buggers the simple past and past participle of?
Played silly buggers is the simple past and past participle of play silly buggers.

Words near played silly buggers in the dictionary

  1. played pendulum
  2. played politics
  3. played possum
  4. played pussy
  5. played second fiddle
  6. played silly buggers
  7. played small
  8. played someone at their own game
  9. played someone like a bass fiddle
  10. played someone like a fiddle
  11. played someone like a violin

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