Idiom
play booty
Meaning
To hustle (play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is playing booty to trick you into betting more money.”
“The hustler played booty during the first few rounds to make his opponent feel overconfident.”
“By deliberately playing booty, the shark lured the unsuspecting amateur into a high-stakes game he could never win.”
Examples
simple
“He is playing booty to trick you into betting more money.”
contextual
“The hustler played booty during the first few rounds to make his opponent feel overconfident.”
complex
“By deliberately playing booty, the shark lured the unsuspecting amateur into a high-stakes game he could never win.”
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