The Rice University Neologisms Database

To be misled or manipulated against your will for the benefit of other people. reason used: The speaker was attempting to explain her feeling of being manipulated and misled as if another person had 'played' with her by telling lies or taking misleading actions. This sense of the word is not especially new to the language, and means for the most part to be manipulated or misled for the benefit of another person at your expense. dictionary entry: Played: v.