Definition of "hide-and-seek" []

• A children's game in which one player tries to find and catch others who are hiding. Also called hide-and-go-seek. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It’s called hide-and-seek, and we’re going to play it like our lives depended on it."
• "Would they have had just played a simple game of hide-and-seek? would they not have been playing anything?"
• "What seems to have happened over the past year is that the hide-and-seek process in the financial intermediation process for mortgage loans to risky borrowers got out of hand."