1. A simple excuse for anything.
2. Also coined in rap, drop hate on anything but other rappers.
1. "Dude WTF?!"
"Don't hate the player, hate the game.
2. Yo' man I ain't ever gonna diss your name
Cuz I'm not hating players, I'm hating the game
by error405 March 1, 2016
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Do not fault the successful participant in a flawed system; try instead to discern and rebuke that aspect of its organization which allows or encourages the behavior that has provoked your displeasure.
Teacher: You have plagarized this essay.
Student: Don't hate the player; hate the game.
by Player March 15, 2005
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Same as people causing wars for religious purposes a.k.a getting justification for doing one's own ideals and mostly wrong thigs.
Why did you kill him?
Don't hate the player hate the game
by jakesters October 15, 2010
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don't dislike someone for their actions, consider instead the situation that causes it.

first use: Ice T: "Hate the Playa"

origin: (?) Ghandi Quote: "Hate the sin and love the sinner."
another use of Don't Hate The Playa/Playette Hate The Game, from Ice T's "Hate the Playa"

"I don't know why a player wanna hate T
I didn't choose the game, the game chose me"

by culprit00 June 21, 2006
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"I don't hate the people, just the government" is something people say when they want to make prejudiced, often racist, comments about a country and its people based on zero evidence. For some reason that cannot yet be explained, the people who use this line almost always say stuff that would cause others to think they hate the people.
I don't hate the people, just the government. That's why we need to ban the Chinese from coming to our country until they become civi... I mean democratic. We'll call it the Chinese Ex... Anti-Communist Act.
by SeoyeonlovesDan December 21, 2020
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What I, or some of us say when a your sweetness found out thinks aren't so sweet..
Girl: What the f!ck are you messing around with that five dollar tittie girl

Me: He honey listen,

don't hate the player hate the game

Me: Opens door, giving the same kiss she will never forget, and say "Call you beautifull"

Me: Driving off with 220 Km/h, Music play's in the background " It's Seven O'Clock on the DOT, i'm in my Audi TT cruisin' the street" Calling the other one on THE list, the holy of holy's :

My phone!
by D-TT February 23, 2007
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