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  • phrase video games A message that appears on the screen of a computer or video game when all of the player's lives have been lost and the game must be started again from a checkpoint, the time runs out, or save point, or when the game has been successfully completed.
  • phrase by extension The end of some ongoing situation due to either failure or success.

Etymologies

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From game and over.

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