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put someone on game

put someone on game verb: to inform someone (about something); to make someone aware (of something).

Verb

put someone on game (third-person singular simple present puts someone on game, present participle putting someone on game, simple past and past participle put someone on game)

  1. (African-American Vernacular) To inform someone (about something); to make someone aware (of something).
    • "Okay, let me put you on game. The crack heads out there love this coke. They a do anything for it. It's so many crack heads that live here and buy, that you going to be finished with that by tonight,” Maine said. Twenty fucking thousand? “Oh okay[…]2014 June 27, Umar Quadeer, Enemy Bloodline, WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS, →ISBN
    • "Let me put you on game about these niggas in New York. They don't care who you are or where you're from, if they see you have something, they gon' kill you to get it. You don't want to be sitting here worrying about Majestic when these[…]"2016 March 17, Charmanie Saquea, When Your Hustling Days Are Gone: A Bad Boy Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of put someone on game

third-person singular presentputs someone on game
present participleputting someone on game
past participleput someone on game
pastput someone on game

Questions about put someone on game

What does put someone on game mean?
Put someone on game means to inform someone (about something); to make someone aware (of something).
What part of speech is put someone on game?
Put someone on game is a verb.
What is the past tense of put someone on game?
The past tense of put someone on game is put someone on game.

Words near put someone on game in the dictionary

  1. put someone in a false position
  2. put someone in hospital
  3. put someone in mind of
  4. put someone in their place
  5. put someone on blast
  6. put someone on game
  7. put someone on ice
  8. put someone on to
  9. put someone out of their misery
  10. put someone through their paces
  11. put someone to their trumps

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