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offstage
Alternative clues for the word offstage
- From the wings of a theatre?
- Adult accepts punch, but not one hidden from audience
- Not visible to the audience
- Out of sight of the house, kill an animal with butt of rifle
- Unseemly male exploit's beginning behind the scenes
- In the wings, say
- A stage area out of sight of the audience
- Behind the scenes
Word definitions for offstage in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Offstage , Peter always seemed a quiet, shy sort of person. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But until then, the mustachioed 44-year-old with drowsy eyes is remaining scrupulously offstage . ▪ Halie, his wife, spends a lot of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience; "offstage noises" [ant: onstage ] withheld from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings" n. a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing , backstage ...
Usage examples of offstage.
Accompanied by a great, brassy fanfare from the orchestra, each woman posed by the footlights in her rustling Paris finery before moving offstage.
The struthio jumped and shook the bag loose, then chased all three clowns offstage.
Night had never been as good, though there were those who found him much less approachable offstage: getting swellheaded, they said, what with the royal command and all.
After a time, a mainly rocky scene shifted to a meadowlike one and young Donnerjack made his way into it, offstage.
Cee Cee remembered wistfullythose days of playing small clubs with Hal, and how she used to beable to stand offstage about to do her encore, and peek through thecurtain, trying to psych out the mood of the audience by their faces,and to figure out if they'd prefer "Knock Me a Kiss" or "Guess WhoI Saw Today.
Because budget and broom-closet constraints make artful transitions between scenes impractical, Mario has opted for the inter-scenic 'entr'acte' device of having Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner doing some of his repertoire's bouncier numbers, with the cabinet-members undulating and harmonizing Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on and offstage as the script requires.
Seeing someone offstage left, where he is facing, THOMAS waves, calls out as he descends from the veranda and WILLIAM follows to downstage left.
I spent hours capering about in quiet places offstage, whenever Macgregor didn't need me, trying to be like Sir John, trying to get style even into Kiss my arse.
I pushed a plate of oyster shells, arranged to look like real oysters on the half shell (yuk), away from the edge of the table and darted offstage.
The exercise-yard door opened and Delacroix came in, escorted by Brutal, who was carrying the cigar box with the colored spool in it, the way the magician's assistant in a vaudeville show might carry the boss's props offstage at the end of the act.