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by-play

  [bahy-pley]
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–noun
an action or speech carried on to the side while the main action proceeds, esp. on the stage.
Also, byplay.

Origin:
1805–15
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Byplay

By"play\, n. Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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