Meaning of byplay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any action, by supporting actor.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.”

“The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.”

CEFR level