"piggy in the middle" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piggies in the middle",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "piggies in the middle"
      },
      "expansion": "piggy in the middle (countable and uncountable, plural piggies in the middle)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "61 5 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual."
      ],
      "id": "en-piggy_in_the_middle-en-noun-SITwK3Tq",
      "links": [
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Keeping something between one's own group, away from others."
      ],
      "id": "en-piggy_in_the_middle-en-noun-nnrW94C-",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Keeping something between one's own group, away from others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0",
          "text": "Millions of us who work in companies of all sizes are piggies in the middle. We are trussed up, torn between the old and the new, and just trying to make things work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people."
      ],
      "id": "en-piggy_in_the_middle-en-noun-xPoDrA1F",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 9 75",
          "word": "keep-away"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "piggy in the middle"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piggies in the middle",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "piggies in the middle"
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      "expansion": "piggy in the middle (countable and uncountable, plural piggies in the middle)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "keep-away"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Keeping something between one's own group, away from others."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Keeping something between one's own group, away from others."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0",
          "text": "Millions of us who work in companies of all sizes are piggies in the middle. We are trussed up, torn between the old and the new, and just trying to make things work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "piggy in the middle"
}