Usually means: Feign disinterest to increase allure.
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  1. play hard to get: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. play hard to get: Merriam-Webster
  3. play hard to get: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. play hard to get: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. play hard to get: Wiktionary
  6. play hard to get: Dictionary.com
  7. play hard to get: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. play hard to get: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (play hard to get)

verb:  (courtship) To be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest.

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