Usually means: Perform music without prior practice.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word sight-read:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sight-read: Merriam-Webster
  2. sight-read: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sight-read: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sight-read, sight-read: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sight-read: Vocabulary.com
  6. sight-read: Wordnik
  7. sight-read: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sight-read: Wiktionary
  9. sight-read: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sight-read: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sight-read: Dictionary.com
  12. sight-read: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Sight-read: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. sight-read: Rhymezone
  15. sight-read: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sight-read: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sight-read: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sight-read: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of sightread

Similar:
speed-read, speed read, set sights on, lip-read, see-saw, pinch hits, looksee, cut a swathe, keep a look-out, book-ended, more...

Types:
play, perform, render, interpret, realize, more...

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     red,     blue, more...

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Similar:
speed-read, speed read, set sights on, lip-read, see-saw, pinch hits, looksee, cut a swathe, keep a look-out, book-ended, more...

Types:
play, perform, render, interpret, realize, more...

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     red,     blue, more...



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