Usually means: Pretend to be someone else.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. play-act: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. play-act, play-act: Collins English Dictionary
  3. play-act: Wordnik
  4. play-act: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. play-act: Wiktionary
  6. play-act: Dictionary.com
  7. play-act: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. play-act: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (play-act)

verb:  (intransitive) To perform on stage; to act in a play.
verb:  (transitive) To play (a scene, role etc.); to act out.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To engage in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To make a pretence of; to feign or simulate.

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