• IPA: /kjuː/, [kj̥ʉː]

cue (plural cues)

1. An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
2. The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.

3. A hint or intimation.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.

4. (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind.
5. The name of the Latin script letter Q
6. (obsolete, UK, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.

• French: signe
• German: Wink, Signal, Hinweis
• Italian: segnale, avvertimento
• Portuguese: sinal, deixa
• Russian: намёк
• Spanish: señal

• German: Stichwort
• Russian: подсказка

• Russian: подсказка

• French: ku, cu
• Italian: cu
• Portuguese: quê
• Russian: кью
• Spanish: cu

cue (cues, present participle cueing; past and past participle cued)

1. To give someone a cue signal.

   Cue the cameraman, and action!

2. i by extension To spark or provoke

cue (plural cues)

1. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
2. (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

• French: queue de billard
• German: Queue, Billardstock
• Italian: stecca
• Portuguese: taco
• Russian: кий
• Spanish: taco

cue (cues, present participle cueing; past and past participle cued)

1. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
2. To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

• cue up

1. (legal) Acronym of clear and unmistakable error legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States.

1. Surname