mug's game

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   a futile or unprofitable endeavor

   Broaderattempt

Questions about mug's game

What does mug's game mean?

mug's game means "a futile or unprofitable endeavor".

Is mug's game a common word?

mug's game is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.