Playa

Definitions

1. A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
   slang
2. A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
   US
3. A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Beyond the valley below lay⟳ a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see⟳.”

““We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take⟳ people to Reno who might walk⟳ off the playa. See⟳ our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.””

“What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick⟳ up T.C. and Miss⟳ Lady's pool hall so we could pay⟳ off G, but a playa like⟳ me was getting ready to go to college and put⟳ all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.”

“In the end⟳, all the things Grace claimed to like⟳ about Marlon—that he was not a ‘playa’, that he was gentle and awkward and not interested in money—were all the reasons she left him.”

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