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Definition of play up

move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker''s distinguished career in linguistics"
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"

Similar Words: foreground, highlight, spotlight, cozy up, cotton up, shine up, sidle up, suck up

Derivational Morphology: limelight, spotlight, glare, public eye, highlighter, highlight, high spot, highlighting, foreground

Anagrams: lay-up, lay up

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