Meaning of play booty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To hustle (play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one).
   archaic, idiomatic
2. To double-cross someone.
   archaic, broadly, figuratively, idiomatic

Examples

“So that we understand⟳ what we ought to do; but when we come⟳ to deliberate, we play⟳ booty against ourselves”

“Oh, we see⟳ through you, John Silver; you want⟳ to play⟳ booty, that’s what’s wrong with you.”

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