Associations to the word «Overplay»

Wiktionary

OVERPLAY, verb. (intransitive) and (transitive) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
OVERPLAY, verb. (transitive) To present something in a manner more dramatic than necessary.
OVERPLAY, verb. (transitive) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
OVERPLAY, verb. (transitive) (golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".

Dictionary definition

OVERPLAY, verb. Exaggerate one's acting.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope