play

1. In play Sports In a position to be legally or feasibly played: The ball is now in play.

2. Out of play Sports Not in a position to be legally or feasibly played.

3. Play ball Slang To cooperate: The opposing attorneys refused to play ball with us.

4. Play fast and loose To behave in a recklessly irresponsible or deceitful manner: played fast and loose with the facts.

5. Play for time To use delaying tactics; temporize.

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1. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

2. Action, motion, or use: the play of the imagination.

3. Activity engaged in for enjoyment or recreation.

4. An attempt to obtain something; a bid: a play for sympathy.

5. Fun or jesting: It was all done in play.

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1. Play along Informal To cooperate or pretend to cooperate: decided to play along with the robbers for a while.

2. Play around To philander.

3. Play at To do or take part in halfheartedly.

4. Play at To participate in; engage in.

5. Play back To replay (a recently recorded tape, for example).

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1. To cause the recorded sound or image of (as a record or a magnetic tape) to be reproduced.

2. To discharge, fire, or set off with continuous effect .

3. To cause to move or operate lightly and irregularly or intermittently.

4. To keep (a hooked fish) in action.

5. To cause (as a radio or phonograph) to emit sounds.

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1. Music To emit sound or be sounded in performance: The band is playing.

2. Music To perform on an instrument: play on an accordion.

3. To act or conduct oneself in a specified way: play fair; an investor who plays cautiously.

4. To act, especially in a dramatic production.

5. To be performed, as in a theater or on television: A good movie is playing tonight.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
paly	9	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
al	2
ay	5
la	2
pa	4
ya	5

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
alp	5
lap	5
lay	6
pal	5
pay	8
ply	8
pya	8
yap	8

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
paly	9
play	9