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hide-and-seek

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˌhide-and-ˈseek (also hide-and-go-seek American English) noun [uncountable]  DGOa children’s game in which one player shuts their eyes while the others hide, and then goes to look for them 捉迷藏,躲猫猫
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hide-and-seekOne is a realistic, pitch-dark forest of oaks - an ideal place for hide-and-seek in almost treeless Venice.Bagca doesn't know it, but her hide-and-seek lesson has a serious purpose.I was the one in hide-and-seek that you never came looking for and I hid for hours from no-one ...Toddlers were playing hide-and-seek in and out of the sand-pit; two little girls were cooking pebbles on a Fisher-Price cooker.And then he'd suggest hide-and-seek.Scientists are still trying to figure out the mechanism for the viral hide-and-seek.
ˌhide-and-ˈseek nounChineseSyllable
Corpus game one which player their eyes in children’s a shuts


hide-and-seek
ˌhide-and-ˈseek (also ˌhide-and-go-ˈseek American English) noun [uncountable]
a children’s game in which one player shuts their eyes while the others hide, and then goes to look for them


hide-and-seekBrE /ˌhaɪd ən ˈsiːk/ 🔊NAmE /ˌhaɪd ən ˈsiːk/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a children's game in which one player covers his or her eyes while the other players hide, and then tries to find them 捉迷藏游戏