byplay

See also: by-play

English

Alternative forms

• by-play

Etymology

by- +‎ play

Noun

byplay (countable and uncountable, plural byplays)

1. (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.

Translations

any action carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action

• Italian: controscena f
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• Manx: fo-chloie m