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A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.
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An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space.
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Usage: figuratively
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The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.
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Usage: broadly
Topics: video-games
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To arrange items in a constrained space.
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Usage: slang, transitive
Examples
- It will be hard to tetris all this furniture into the moving van.
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From Russian Те́трис (Tétris), coined by the creator of the game, Alexey Pajitnov, from the Russian numerical prefix тетра- (tetra-, “tetra-”) (as all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and те́ннис (ténnis, “tennis”), his favourite sport.
From Tetris.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
Տետրիս
(Tetris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Belarusian:
Тэ́трыс
(Tétrys)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Bulgarian:
Те́трис
(Tétris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Chinese Mandarin:
俄羅斯方塊 /俄罗斯方块
(Éluósī fāngkuài)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Czech:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Dutch:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Esperanto:
Tetriso
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Finnish:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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French:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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German:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Hebrew:
טטריס
(tetris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Icelandic:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Italian:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Japanese:
テトリス
(tetorisu)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Lithuanian:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Macedonian:
Те́трис
(Tétris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Marathi:
टेट्रिस
(ṭeṭris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Nahuatl:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Norwegian:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Polish:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Portuguese:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Russian:
Те́трис
(Tɛ́tris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Slovak:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Slovene:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Spanish:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Swedish:
Tetris
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Thai:
เตตริส
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
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Ukrainian:
Те́тріс
(Tétris)
— game in which falling shapes must be manipulated
