"play silly buggers" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "playing silly buggers",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "play silly beggars",
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        "alternative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "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": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
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        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ]
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        "(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
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        "British",
        "Canada",
        "New-Zealand",
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  "word": "play silly buggers"
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      "form": "plays silly buggers",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "playing silly buggers",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played silly buggers",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "play silly beggars",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
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        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ],
        [
          "reckless",
          "reckless"
        ]
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        "(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) To act in a stupid or reckless manner."
      ],
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        "British",
        "Canada",
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