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hide-and-seek
A game in which many players hide and the person who is "in" tries to find them before they make it back to "home": Let's play hide-and-seek. Compare hide-and-go-seek, hidey.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] When I was a lad it was called hide-and-seek. Hide-and-go-seek was only heard in American TV shows. We never had up either, the searcher was he.
Contributor's comments: We play 'hide-and-seek', and, in Perth, and you were 'it' not up.
Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] I always knew it as just "hide & seek" (ie not hide and GO seek).