name of the game noun Slang. The essential or indispensable part or quality necessary for success of an activity or enterprise or the fulfillment of a goal: "The name of the game was to get the story" (David Fitzpatrick). Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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