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playing Cupid

playing Cupid is the present participle and gerund of play Cupid.

Meaning of play Cupid

Verb

play Cupid (third-person singular simple present plays Cupid, present participle playing Cupid, simple past and past participle played Cupid)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To act as a matchmaker, trying to coerce or induce two people into a romantic relationship.

Questions about playing Cupid

What is playing Cupid the present participle and gerund of?
Playing Cupid is the present participle and gerund of play Cupid.

Words near playing Cupid in the dictionary

  1. playing by the rules
  2. playing card
  3. playing cards
  4. playing cheat
  5. playing chicken
  6. playing Cupid
  7. playing dead
  8. playing dirty
  9. playing doctor
  10. playing down
  11. playing dumb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playing Cupid (page history and authors); play Cupid (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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