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sucker's payoff

sucker's payoff noun: the pessimal outcome for a player who cooperates while the other defects.

Noun

sucker's payoff (plural sucker's payoffs)

  1. The pessimal outcome for a player who cooperates while the other defects.

Forms of sucker's payoff

pluralsucker's payoffs

Questions about sucker's payoff

What does sucker's payoff mean?
Sucker's payoff means the pessimal outcome for a player who cooperates while the other defects.
What part of speech is sucker's payoff?
Sucker's payoff is a noun.
What is the plural of sucker's payoff?
The plural of sucker's payoff is sucker's payoffs.

Words near sucker's payoff in the dictionary

  1. sucker punching
  2. Sucker State
  3. sucker tracks
  4. sucker trap
  5. sucker traps
  6. sucker's payoff
  7. sucker-punch
  8. sucker-punched
  9. sucker-punches
  10. Suckerberg
  11. suckerdom

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