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cheat out

cheat out verb: to face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.

Verb

cheat out (third-person singular simple present cheats out, present participle cheating out, simple past and past participle cheated out)

  1. (intransitive) To face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
    • In stage acting, we are frequently asked to cheat out to the audience by opening up our body positions so that we are something halfway between facing them and our partner.2015, Robert Barton, Acting: Onstage and Off, page 184
    Synonyms:
    open up

Synonyms of cheat out

Forms of cheat out

third-person singular presentcheats out
present participlecheating out
past participlecheated out
pastcheated out

Questions about cheat out

What does cheat out mean?
Cheat out means to face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
What part of speech is cheat out?
Cheat out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cheat out?
The past tense of cheat out is cheated out.

Words near cheat out in the dictionary

  1. cheat grass
  2. cheat grasses
  3. cheat meal
  4. cheat meals
  5. cheat on
  6. cheat out
  7. cheat out of
  8. cheat sheet
  9. cheat sheets
  10. cheat the hangman
  11. cheat the pocket

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