PLAY ALONG Definition & Meaning

play along

to cooperate (with), esp as a temporary measure
(tr) to manipulate as if in a game, esp for one's own advantage
he played the widow along until she gave him her money

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Cooperate or pretend to cooperate, as in They decided to play along with the robbers, at least for a while. [Colloquial; 1920s]

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Forgive us if we don’t want to play along.

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It featured musicians who’d never been in the band and they played along to prerecorded bass tracks.

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Of course no such regime can impose itself on a society that is overwhelmingly unwilling to play along.

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It is a media construct that Trump and his people play along with because it’s a Washington convention that they don’t hate.

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But his joy turned to rage when Metcalf did not play along with the racist stunt.

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