Usually means: Exaggerate or excessively emphasize something.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word overplay:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. overplay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overplay: Merriam-Webster
  3. overplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overplay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overplay: Vocabulary.com
  7. overplay: Wordnik
  8. overplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overplay: Wiktionary
  10. overplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overplay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overplay: Dictionary.com
  14. overplay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overplay: Rhymezone
  16. overplay: FreeDictionary.org
  17. overplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. overplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overplay: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overplay: Idioms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Overplay: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
verb:  (transitive, music) To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
verb:  (transitive, golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".

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