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plays_hard_to_get

play hard to get

English

Verb

play hard to get (third-person singular simple present plays hard to get, present participle playing hard to get, simple past and past participle played hard to get)

  1. (courtship) To be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest.

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