I-spy

n. a game in which players try to identify something observed by one of them and identified by its initial letter.

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I-spy /īˈspīˈ/

noun

1. A wordgame, in which one guesses objects in view, whose names begin with a certain letter of the alphabet

2. A children's game of hide-and-seek, so called from the cry when someone is spied

ORIGIN: ↑I and ↑spy

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I-spy UK US noun [uncountable]

a children’s game in which players try to guess what object someone is thinking of by knowing the first letter of it. The game begins by one player saying ‘I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with...’.

Thesaurus: children's games_hyponym to perform an action in a card game_hyponym

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I-spy «Y SPY», noun.

Especially British. hide-and-seek.

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I-spy 7 [I-spy] [ˌaɪ ˈspaɪ] [ˌaɪ ˈspaɪ] noun uncountable

a children's game in which one player gives the first letter of a thing that they can see and the others have to guess what it is