Upstage

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upstage
       adj 1: of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage
              chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the
              audience" [ant: {downstage}]
       2: remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a
          distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: {aloof},


           {distant}]
       adv : at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were
             directed to move upstage" [ant: {downstage}]
       v 1: treat snobbishly, put in one's place
       2: move (another actor) upstage, forcing him to turn away from
          the audience
       3: steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone
          else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the
          actress"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "upstage":
     DR, act, act as foil, appear, arrogant, backstage, barnstorm,
     before an audience, before the footlights, behind the scenes, big,
     cold-shoulder, come out, condescending, domineering, down left,
     down right, downstage, emote, emotionalize, get top billing,
     haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-hat, high-headed,
     high-nosed, hoity-toity, in the limelight, lofty, mime,
     not receive, off stage, on the stage, onstage, overbearing,
     pantomime, patronizing, patter, perform, play, play the lead,
     playact, proud, purse-proud, rebuff, register, repulse, sketch,
     snub, star, steal the show, stooge, stuck-up, superior, toplofty,
     tread the boards, troupe, turn away from, up left, uppish, uppity,
     upright