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71play out — verb Date: 1580 transitive verb 1. a. to perform to the end < play out a role > b. use up, finish 2. unreel, unfold < played out a length of line Gordon Webber > …
72play something by ear — 1》 perform music without having seen a score. 2》 (play it by ear) informal proceed instinctively according to circumstances rather than according to rules or a plan. → play …
73perform — v. 1 tr. (also absol.) carry into effect; be the agent of; do (a command, promise, task, etc.). 2 tr. (also absol.) go through, execute (a public function, play, piece of music, etc.). 3 intr. act in a play; play music, sing …
74play — [OE] The origins of play are obscure. It had a relative in Middle Dutch pleien ‘dance about, jump for joy’, but this has now died out, leaving it in splendid but puzzling isolation, its ancestry unaccounted for. Its underlying meaning appears to… …
75perform — v. a. 1. Do, execute, effect, accomplish, achieve, compass, bring about, bring to pass, work out, transact. 2. Observe, fulfil, meet, discharge, satisfy, complete, adhere to, be faithful to, comply with, act up to, execute. 3. Act, represent,… …
76play hide the sausage — tv. to perform an act of copulation. (Jocular. Usually objectionable.) □ Then he said he wanted to play hide the sausage. □ The last time we played hide the sausage, I knew where it was all the time …
77play — [OE] The origins of play are obscure. It had a relative in Middle Dutch pleien ‘dance about, jump for joy’, but this has now died out, leaving it in splendid but puzzling isolation, its ancestry unaccounted for. Its underlying meaning appears to… …
78play back — transitive verb Date: 1949 to perform a playback of (a usually recently recorded disc or tape) …
79Play chicken — 1. perform a dangerous dare; 2. (of a person) to stand in the path of an approaching vehicle daring the driver to run them down; 3. (of the drivers of two vehicles) to proceed along a collision course, as a test of courage …
80play chicken — Australian Slang 1. perform a dangerous dare; 2. (of a person) to stand in the path of an approaching vehicle daring the driver to run them down; 3. (of the drivers of two vehicles) to proceed along a collision course, as a test of courage …
