parlor game

noun

: a game suitable for playing indoors

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The titular parlor game ensues… until one character winds up really, truly dead. Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025 The parlor game becomes trying to figure out which will emerge at the front of the pack. Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025 In less than three years, OpenAI has gone from a parlor game to a pillar of the global economy. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025 Analyzing the president’s motivations became the continent’s favorite parlor game, because the appropriate response to him would depend on which interpretation one favored. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for parlor game

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of parlor game was in 1854

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“Parlor game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlor%20game. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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