"play silly buggers" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play silly buggers (third-person singular simple present plays silly buggers, present participle playing silly buggers, simple past and past participle played silly buggers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 95",
          "text": "\"Look,\" he said, \"it's just fate playing silly buggers with you. With me. With us. It's a complete coincidence.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-play_silly_buggers-en-verb-~DEhI4Y3",
      "links": [
        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "play silly beggars"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "British",
        "Canada",
        "New-Zealand",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/En-au-play_silly_buggers.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "play silly buggers"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play silly buggers (third-person singular simple present plays silly buggers, present participle playing silly buggers, simple past and past participle played silly buggers)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "British English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 95",
          "text": "\"Look,\" he said, \"it's just fate playing silly buggers with you. With me. With us. It's a complete coincidence.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "British",
        "Canada",
        "New-Zealand",
        "idiomatic"
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      "tags": [
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "play silly beggars"
    }
  ],
  "word": "play silly buggers"
}