"cue" Definition

Definitions for the word "cue" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 a last words of an actor''s speech as a signal to another to enter or speak. B similar signal to a musician etc. 2 a stimulus to perception etc. B signal for action. C hint on appropriate behaviour. 3 cueing audio equipment (see sense 2 of v.). v. (cues, cued, cueing or cuing) 1 give a cue to. 2 put (audio equipment) in readiness to play a particular section. cue in 1 insert a cue for. 2 give information to. On cue at the correct moment. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
properly the last word spoken by one actor, it being the CUE for the other to reply. “Very often an actor knows nothing of a piece beyond his own lines and the CUES.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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