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Game over? Everybody hides outside (3,5)

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I believe the answer is:

all fours

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'game' is the definition.
(all fours is a kind of game)

'over? everybody hides outside' is the wordplay.
'over?' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'everybody' becomes 'all' (all people).
'hides outside' becomes 'fours' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'all' put next to 'fours' is 'ALL-FOURS'.

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(Other definitions for all fours that I've seen before include "steady par round?" , "Both arms and legs" , "Walking on them, one is on hands and knees" , "Bear thus to make progress" , "Hands and feet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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