Definition of role player Role player
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What does role player mean?
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| role player - a theatrical performer | ||
| actor, histrion, player, thespian | ||
| performer, performing artist an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | ||
| actress a female actor | ||
| play-actor, playactor, barnstormer, trouper a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | ||
| character actor an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles | ||
| comedian a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | ||
| ham actor, ham meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | ||
| heavy a serious (or tragic) role in a play | ||
| ingenue the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | ||
| leading man actor who plays the leading male role | ||
| mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist, mime a performance using gestures and body movements without words | ||
| plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | ||
| reenactor a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier | ||
| scene-stealer an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene; "babies are natural scene-stealers" | ||
| movie actor, screen actor an actor who plays a role in a film | ||
| principal, star, lead the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | ||
| spear carrier, supernumerary, extra a minor actor in crowd scenes | ||
| tragedian an actor who specializes in tragic roles | ||
| understudy, standby an actor able to replace a regular performer when required | ||
| upstager a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | ||
| walk-on plays a small part in a dramatic production | ||
| role player - a person who makes deceitful pretenses | ||
| imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud | ||
| cheater, deceiver, beguiler, slicker, trickster, cheat someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | ||
| name dropper someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends | ||
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