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Play doctor

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play.
  2. 2
    To explore or sexually engage with another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature. usually

    "[…] Jimmie volunteered, […] "How can you have kids if you don't play doctor?""

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