Dictionary

play doctor en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A professional who is called in to revise a play written by someone else.
   • If Shakespeare lived to-day he would have waited four years to have his first comedy read and accepted—after which it would have been re-written by the stage carpenter and the leading lady and put on with interpolated songs and a costume chorus with a play doctor in the rear of the theater keeping track of the laughs with a hand comptometer. 1912 July 19, The Evening Telegram, Elyria, Ohio:

Forms

play doctor en · VERB

Meanings

1. To pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play.
2. (of minors, usually) To explore or sexually engage with another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature.
   • […] Jimmie volunteered, […] "How can you have kids if you don't play doctor?" 1931 October, R. L. Whitely, “Interviewing the Problem Boy”, in E. George Payne, editor, The Journal of Educational Sociology, volume V, number 2, Albany, page 99:
   • By the time they are six, they may play doctor and take one another's rectal temperature or place objects into their orifices, […] 1988, Lynn Leight, Raising Sexually Healthy Children, New York: Avon Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 226:

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Translations (5)

pl bawić się w doktora (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature) · fi leikkiä lääkäriä (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature) · pt brincar de médico (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature) · de Doktorspiel (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature) · fr jouer au docteur (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature)