Definition of 'fair game'

fair game

uncountable noun

If you say that someone is fair game, you mean that it is acceptable to criticize or attack them, usually because of the way that they behave.

Politicians were always considered fair game by cartoonists.

fair game in British

noun

a legitimate object for ridicule or attack

2. hunting archaic

quarry that may legitimately be pursued according to the rules of a particular sport

fair game in American

game that may lawfully be hunted

any legitimate object of attack or pursuit

Example sentences containing 'fair game'

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Fair game, you may feel. Times, Sunday Times (2010)Everything like that was fair game, and it was always fair game to tease the keepers and those people who had apple trees and things. Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There (2006)

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Definition of fair game from the Collins English Dictionary

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