Associations to the word «Byplay»

Wiktionary

BYPLAY, noun. (theatre) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.

Dictionary definition

BYPLAY, noun. Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates