play with
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.59 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: play with.
verb
To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The boy was playing with his toys."
- "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier."
- "It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains."
- "Breaking into the right side of Wolves' penalty area, he played with Elokobi over and over while ignoring both Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney as they lurked in the centre with arms aloft."
- "She laughed and started to play with me. I started getting hard and really got turned on. I liked her giving me all the attention. I begged her to suck my cock. I was ready to explode. She went down on me and I had a terrific orgasm."