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plays like

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

Meaning of play like

Verb

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

  1. (Southern US) To pretend.

Questions about plays like

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

Words near plays like in the dictionary

  1. plays it cool
  2. plays it for all it's worth
  3. plays it pear-shaped
  4. plays it safe
  5. plays it straight
  6. plays like
  7. plays merry havoc with
  8. plays merry hell with
  9. plays nice
  10. plays Nostradamus
  11. plays number two

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plays like (page history and authors); play like (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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