put someone on game

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put someone on game (third-person singular simple present puts someone on game, present participle putting someone on game, simple past and past participle put someone on game)

1. (African-American Vernacular) To inform someone (about something); to make someone aware (of something).
   • 2014 June 27, Umar Quadeer, Enemy Bloodline, WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS, →ISBN:

     "Okay, let me put you on game. The crack heads out there love this coke. They a do anything for it. It's so many crack heads that live here and buy, that you going to be finished with that by tonight,” Maine said. Twenty fucking thousand? “Oh okay […]

   • 2016 March 17, Charmanie Saquea, When Your Hustling Days Are Gone: A Bad Boy Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:

     "Let me put you on game about these niggas in New York. They don't care who you are or where you're from, if they see you have something, they gon' kill you to get it. You don't want to be sitting here worrying about Majestic when these […]"

   • 2019 September 29, Letitia Scott-Jackson, Grace & Favor: From Prison to Paid Vol. I, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 55:

     […] he put me on game about a bondsman. He knew not to talk drugs on the phone, so he asked me to meet him on the corner. I told him I was on the way. Moe had a phone number wrote down on a sheet of torn off paper. He handed it to me […]

   • 2024, Kendrick Lamar, They Not Like Us:

     Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game.