Cue Definition
- tip
- innuendo
- idea
- lead
- clew
- clue
- discriminative-stimulus
- pool stick
- pool cue
- cue stick
- wink
- warning
- rod
- intimation
- suggestion
(law) Clear and Unmistakable Error; legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States.
- to add (dialogue, music, etc.) at a particular point in a script
- to follow the advice, example, etc. of
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cue
- cue in
- on cue
- take one's cue from
Origin of Cue
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French queue tail, billiards cue (in the latter sense perhaps originally referring to the narrow leather-tipped end, or “tail,” of the cue) queue
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Perhaps from q, qu abbreviation of Latin quandō when used for actors' copies of plays kwo- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From the letter Q, abbreviation of Latin quando (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.
From Wiktionary
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Variant of queue
From Wiktionary
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