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verb · irregular · intransitive · rare

play doggo

play doggo · plays doggo · played doggo · playing doggo

Synonym of lie doggoSynonym of lie doggo (“to lie quiet and still in order to avoid detection”)

UK/pleɪ ˈdɒɡəʊ/US/pleɪ ˈdɔɡoʊ/

Meaning

1 senses

(slang)Synonym of lie doggo (“to lie quiet and still in order to avoid detection”)
Near-synonyms: play dead, play possum

Forms

plays doggo, playing doggo, played doggo, played doggo

Base form	play doggo · to play doggo
3rd person singular	plays doggo
Present participle	playing doggo
Past simple	played doggo
Past participle	played doggo

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	play doggo
he, she, it	plays doggo

Past simpleLesson

all persons

played doggo

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have played doggo
he, she, it	has played doggo

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will play doggo

Synonyms

3 synonyms

play dead play possum lie doggo

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

plausibilityC1 plausibleC1 playA1 playback playboy playerA1 playfulA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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