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One who engages in certain amusements or pastimes, particularly electronic amusements.

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Usage examples (36)
  • If you're a video game fan out there, this is the time of year when you're getting what we call gamer's thumb.
  • All in all the term gamer is going to need a lot of work before it will be societally accepted as terms such as athlete and student.
  • First off, I love that the word gamer is in quotes.
  • A gamer is not going to do this stuff the plain and simple way.
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