byplay
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byplay (countable and uncountable, plural byplays)
- (theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
- 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:
- [...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.
- 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.
- Any action, by supporting actor.
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any action carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action
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- “byplay”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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