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play doctors

play doctors is the plural of play doctor.

Meaning of play doctor

Noun

play doctor (plural play doctors)

  1. A professional who is called in to revise a play written by someone else.
    • If Shakespeare lived to-day he would have waited four years to have his first comedy read and accepted—after which it would have been re-written by the stage carpenter and the leading lady and put on with interpolated songs and a costume chorus with a play doctor in the rear of the theater keeping...1912 July 19, The Evening Telegram, Elyria, Ohio

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Questions about play doctors

What is play doctors the plural of?
Play doctors is the plural of play doctor.

Words near play doctors in the dictionary

  1. play date
  2. play dates
  3. play dead
  4. play dirty
  5. play doctor
  6. play doctors
  7. play doggo
  8. play down
  9. play dumb
  10. play equipment
  11. play fair

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