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noun

Cue n.

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword. "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer."

A hint or intimation. "Give them (the servants) their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house."

The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play. "Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter."

Humor; temper of mind. (Colloq.)

A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Cue n. A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. (Obs.) Note: The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. "Hast thou worn Gowns in the university, tossed logic, Sucked philosophy, eat cues?"

verb

Cue v. t. (past & past part. cued; pres. part. cueing) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cue" Quotes from Famous Books

... hills, and the Apennines afar off where the sun sets. We see the noble white steers slowly moving in the valley, among the trees, ploughing as in the days of Cincinnatus. An infinite peace and quiet reign. We hear birds, and in the evening the cue owl utters his melodious, melancholy one note. The world does not disturb us. The air is as pure and fresh as air can possibly be, blowing from the sweet, carefully tended plain, and sweeping down from the mountains. Near ...

— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

... belonged to our company? — I understand his meaning, but answered no; that he had come up with us on the common, and helped us to drive away two fellows, that looked like highwaymen — He nodded three times distinctly, as much as to say, he knows his cue. Then he inquired, if one of those men was mounted on a bay mare, and the other on a chestnut gelding with a white streak down his forehead? and being answered in the affirmative, he assured me they had robbed three post-chaises this very morning — I inquired, in my turn, ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... for that dear Betsey Kling with her invectives we should have been mixed, and not had a cue now!" exclaimed Cyn. "I declare, I could ...

— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer

... Steve White was a great man," said the Observer, as he chalked his cue and reflectively gazed at the balls, "but he was born in that class. If he hadn't been, Stephen Mallory White would probably have cut no greater figure in the world ...

— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman

... and spirits, and more resolute unscrupulosity, had so carried the heart of the other by storm that it was Vanessa, the provincial termagant, who looked up to and worshipped her sister dare-devil of the Metropolis, and who watched her for her every cue. ...

— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici

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