Word Direct Answers

What does "cue" mean?

Cue: The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A hint or intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift.
  2. 3.The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play. Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter. Shak.
  3. 4.Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.
  4. 5.A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
  5. 6.To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
  6. 7.A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.] Note: The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. Nares. Hast thou worn Gowns in the university, tossed logic, Sucked philosophy, eat cues Old Play.

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