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plays doctor

plays doctor is the third-person singular simple present indicative of play doctor.

Meaning of play doctor

Verb

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

  1. To pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play.
  2. (usually) To explore or sexually engage with another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature.
    • […] Jimmie volunteered, […] "How can you have kids if you don't play doctor?"1931 October, R. L. Whitely, “Interviewing the Problem Boy”, in E. George Payne, editor, The Journal of Educational Sociology, volume V, number 2, Albany, page 99

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Questions about plays doctor

What is plays doctor the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Plays doctor is the third-person singular simple present indicative of play doctor.

Words near plays doctor in the dictionary

  1. plays cheat
  2. plays chicken
  3. plays Cupid
  4. plays dead
  5. plays dirty
  6. plays doctor
  7. plays down
  8. plays dumb
  9. plays fair
  10. plays fast and loose
  11. plays favorites

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