Definitions for cue

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cue cue

Spelling: [kyoo]

IPA: /kyu/

Cue is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in cue (ceu).

Definitions for cue

noun

1. anything said or done, on or off stage, that is followed by a specific line or action:
2. anything that excites to action; stimulus.
3. a hint; intimation; guiding suggestion.
4. the part a person is to play; a prescribed or necessary course of action.
5. a sensory signal used to identify experiences, facilitate memory, or organize responses.
6. Archaic. frame of mind; mood.
7. a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
8. a long, usually wooden stick with a concave head, used to propel the disks in shuffleboard.
9. a queue of hair.
10. a queue or file, as of persons awaiting their turn.
11. the letter Q, q.

Idioms

1. cue (someone) in, Informal. to inform; give instructions, information, news, etc., to:
2. miss a cue, to fail to respond to a cue. Informal. to miss the point:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a cue or indication; give a cue to; prompt:
2. to insert, or direct to come in, in a specific place in a musical or dramatic performance (usually followed by in or into):
3. to search for and reach (a specific track on a recording) (sometimes followed by up).
4. to tie into a queue.
5. to strike with a cue.

Origin of cue

1545-55; spelled name of the letter q as an abbreviation (found in acting scripts) of Latin quandō when

Examples for cue

Even M. Binet appeared to be waiting for a cue from Scaramouche.

cue heartbroken Galavant engorging himself on booze and mutton back home.

Stephen, taking his cue from his sister, was morose and silent, also.

She did not weep on cue in public when Monteith died, or seek sympathy.

The blast was a stupefying white flash followed by a body-shaking howl, and it was the cue for a maelstrom of metallic shrieks.

cue a series of shots of these veteran actors dusting off their best revenge faces.

Simonne gives the cue: 'Here are the guests,' and I come in.

She left things as they were, taking her cue from the boy in despite of her desire.

Provost heard my "cue" on the stage, and pushed me gently forward.

Affleck, as if on cue, challenged Harris: “Are you the person who understands the officially codified doctrine of Islam?”