Usually means: Interaction or exchange between performers.
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  1. byplay: Merriam-Webster
  2. byplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. byplay: Vocabulary.com
  4. byplay: Wordnik
  5. byplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. byplay: Wiktionary
  7. byplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Byplay, byplay: Dictionary.com
  9. Byplay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. byplay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. byplay: Rhymezone
  12. Byplay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. byplay: FreeDictionary.org
  14. byplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Byplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (byplay)

▸ noun:  (theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
▸ noun:  Any action, by supporting actor.

Similar:
stage business, business, by-play, play, playlet, playwork, playette, walk-on, straight play, play-by-play, more...

Opposite:
foreground, main action, central plot

Adjectives:
little, comic, mere, sexual, such, verbal, political, much, humorous, amusing, interesting

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Similar:
stage business, business, by-play, play, playlet, playwork, playette, walk-on, straight play, play-by-play, more...

Opposite:
foreground, main action, central plot

Adjectives:
little, comic, mere, sexual, such, verbal, political, much, humorous, amusing, interesting



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