byplay
See also: by-play
English
Alternative forms
- by-play
Etymology
by- + play
Noun
byplay (countable and uncountable, plural byplays)
- (theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
- 1983, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's American film guide, volume 1, page 647:
- The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
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Translations
any action carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action
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