Usually means: Performing a role; pretending acting.
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  1. playact: Merriam-Webster
  2. playact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. playact: Vocabulary.com
  4. playact: Wiktionary
  5. playact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. playact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. playact: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. playact: Dictionary.com
  9. playact: Rhymezone
  10. playact: FreeDictionary.org
  11. playact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. playact: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. playact: Legal dictionary

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  1. playact: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Playact)

▸ verb:  Alternative form of play-act. [(intransitive) To perform on stage; to act in a play.]

Similar:
play, roleplay, ACT, play-act, play out, perform, play to, enact, theatricise, theatricize, more...

Types:
pantomime, mime, skit, charade, melodrama, farce, vaudeville, burlesque, more...

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Similar:
play, roleplay, ACT, play-act, play out, perform, play to, enact, theatricise, theatricize, more...

Types:
pantomime, mime, skit, charade, melodrama, farce, vaudeville, burlesque, more...



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