play with

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play with

verb plays with · playing with · played with

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: play with. The boy was playing with his toys.
transitive To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance.
transitive To trick. Breaking into the right side of Wolves' penalty area, he played with Elokobi over and over while ignoring both Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney as they lurked in the centre with arms aloft.
transitive To sexually stimulate (a person or a person's erogenous zone). She laughed and started to play with me. I started getting hard and really got turned on. I liked her giving me all the attention. I begged her to suck my cock. I was ready to explode. She went down on me and I had a terrific orgasm.

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Español	jugar con
中文	玩 wán

verb to fiddle with

Español	juguetear con

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@misc{play_with_2026,
  title = {play with},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/play%20with},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}