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Definition of Overplays
1. overplay [v] - See also: overplay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overplays
Literary usage of Overplays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"Reckon I overplays my hand dis once! A man can't take de pot on a bob-tailed
flush all de time. Was I sayin' I'd sit in six months mo'? ..."
2. O. Henry Biography by Charles Alphonso Smith (1916)
"Perhaps in "The Pride of the Cities" the reader will be inclined to think that
the man from Topaz City, Arizona, overplays the Westernism of his part. ..."
3. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: From the Days by Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton (1886)
"Here she underplays and there she overplays her difficult part. . . . The very
first scene and the very last are, to my thinking, out of eight, the best, ..."
4. The Life and Art of Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries by Laurence Hutton (1886)
"Here she underplays and there she overplays her difficult part. . . . The very
first scene and the very last are, to my thinking, ..."
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