Sentence examples for mean play from inspiring English sources

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And while uptown clubs generally mean work -- and some pay -- for comics, downtown clubs generally just mean play.

The uncomfortable truth is that, in the digital age, the BBC and Channel 4 will lose their right to exist as public-service carriers if they regress to the mean, play safe and invest more in - and only promote - big-budget blockbusters.

In "Homo Ludens," in a chapter summarizing various languages' expression of the "play-concept," Johan Huizinga notes that asobi can mean "play in general, recreation, relaxation, amusement, passing the time or pastime, a trip or jaunt, dissipation, gambling, idling, lying idle, being unemployed".

(It could also mean Play Racket, Play Shoot, or "to play Mahjong").

And I do mean, "play".

I don't mean play like dipping your balls in peanut butter and tricking the dog into licking it off.

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That can mean playing the Internet fixer.

Being drafted does not necessarily mean playing.

I don't mean playing screaming.

"I mean playing without cheating, what is the point?

That doesn't necessarily mean playing hard or fast.

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