(US) hide and seek

(idiomatic) To punish or subdue someone.

(idiomatic) To be unnoticeable, by staying visible in a setting that masks presence.

An apparent self-protective behaviour in the final stages of hypothermia, during which the afflicted enters a small enclosed space.

(colloquial) To annoy someone; get on someone's nerves.

A place where something or someone may be hidden.

(idiomatic, Britain, informal) A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost.

plural of hiding place

(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of information hiding

(software, object-oriented programming) The technique to hide information so that it is invisible from the outside of an object. (It is a principle of segregation of design decisions that are most likely to change, so that other parts of the program are protected from extensive modification.)