small game
noun1
Small animals and birds that are hunted and killed, either by hunters or predators.
2
Euphemistic Small vermin.
- May be it is like that medicine a fellow rung in on poor lawyer Mac Campbell, to kill fleas, bed bugs, and all sich^([sic]) small game; and made the lawyer believe it was so heavy that three ounces weighed a pound.1841, The New Sporting Magazine, page 9:
- Smells, bad drainage, impure water, unhealthiness of situation, dampness, the absence of advantages mentioned, the presence of small game […]1875, J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House:
- Antonyms
- big game