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by-plays

by-plays is the plural of by-play.

Meaning of by-play

Noun

by-play (countable and uncountable, plural by-plays)

  1. Action carried on aside, commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds; action not intended to be observed by some of the persons present.

Questions about by-plays

What is by-plays the plural of?
By-plays is the plural of by-play.

Words near by-plays in the dictionary

  1. by-peep
  2. by-peeping
  3. by-place
  4. by-places
  5. by-play
  6. by-plays
  7. by-plot
  8. by-plots
  9. by-poll
  10. by-polls
  11. by-product

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by-plays (page history and authors); by-play (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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