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Play Along
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What does Play Along mean?
verb
- To take part in a charade, deception, or practical joke.
- To participate in a joke or trick while hiding one's knowledge of its true nature.
- To play a musical instrument in synchrony with a playback of a recording.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To cooperate or go along with a plan.
- To pretend to cooperate or go along with a plan.
- To manipulate (someone).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, along.
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Black shatters White’s pawn position, and his Bishops and Rooks have full play along open files and diagonals.
Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path.
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Broad sheets of electric flame play along the ground, filling the air with a strange, unnatural light; heavy, pattering raindrops begin to fall, and, ten minutes after, a pelting, pitiless down-pour is drenching the sod-cabin of the lonely rancher, and, for the time being, converting the level plain into a shallow lake.