ad-lib
Verb
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Verb
ad-lib (ad-libs, present participle ad-libbing; past and past participle ad-libbed)
- To improvise all or part of a speech or other performance, especially in comedy.
- 1998 December 21, The New Yorker,
- Hope’s onstage ad-libbing generated more humor and attention than the show’s lacklustre libretto.
- 2004 March 15, The New Yorker,
- I watched Jeb Bush as his brother spoke. He paid attention, grinned and laughed, even ad-libbed when called upon.
- 1998 December 21, The New Yorker,
- French: improviser
- Russian: импровизировать
- Spanish: improvisar
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