counterplay
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[edit]counterplay (countable and uncountable, plural counterplays)
- A game move made as a response.
- (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- 2007 January 7, Dylan Loeb Mcclain, “After a Detour, Nakamura, 19, Is Back to His Winning Ways”, in New York Times[1]:
- Milov might have tried 15 ... b4 to give himself some counterplay on the queenside.
- (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
- Hyponym: griefing
- Near-synonym: playing off meta — colloquial
Verb
[edit]counterplay (third-person singular simple present counterplays, present participle counterplaying, simple past and past participle counterplayed)
- To make a counterplay; to play in response.
- 1844, Jonathan H. Green, Gambling Unmasked! […], page 191:
- I knew that, with this arrangement, unless I should counterplay, they would soon fleece me.
- 1928 [1922], Oswald Spengler, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson, The Decline of the West, volume 2, Perspectives of World-History, page 429:
- In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be staked, India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam called out, new technics and tactics played and counterplayed.
- To counter; to contrast or contradict.
- 1997, Brian W. MacDonald, Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent, page 60:
- Yürük weaving generally comprises a rich burnt apricot, particularly in the borders; a mulberry-red filling large areas of the field; lighter reds used to counterplay against a deep, dark crimson […]
- 2019, Natasha Remoundou, “Intercultural Performance Ecologies in the Making: Minor(ity) Theatre and the Greek Crisis”, in Charlotte McIvor, Jason King, editors, Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?, →ISBN, page 296:
- Self-reflections on hope are counterplayed by the grim reality in the camp, reminiscent of a lost home, and the agony for the future.
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