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role-player, n.
Brit. |ˈrəʊlˌpleɪə|, U.S. |ˈroʊlˌpleɪər|
[‹ role n. + player n.1 Compare German Rollenspieler (J. L. Moreno Das Stegreiftheater (1943) 31).]
1.
a. A person who plays or adopts a role; a participant in role-playing, esp. as a technique in training, psychotherapy, or drama.
1939Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 45 52 Men do not emerge in their full personal reality, but they appear as actors of parts, as role-players, and the attention is never centred on them but only on their outlines of behaviour. 1944Sociometry 7 136 The situation further defined by the role-players, to make it as ‘real’ as possible and to warm up the participants in their roles. 1964Sociometry 27 247 Two role-players took their seats together with four naive subjects... The role players were introduced routinely, as were all the others, as fellow salesgirls in the store. 1978Dædalus Summer 137 He [sc. the bourgeois] is the man who, when dealing with others, thinks only of himself, and, in his understanding of himself, thinks only of others. He is a role-player. 1986Science 3 Oct. 44/1 Persons expressing opinions under extremely constraining circumstances (for example, as role-players in an experiment where the experimenter clearly assigns the position they must espouse) are nevertheless seen to be sympathetic to those opinions. 1992T. Healy New Latitudes 46 The actions of editorial emendation in this instance worked to suppress the scene's representation of Brutus as a role player.
b. Chiefly N. Amer. Sport (esp. Basketball). A player who performs a specific function and is only brought on to the field when required.
1978Washington Post 22 Nov. d2/1 The Bullets now are a team of role players. Wes Unseld rebounds and passes, Elvin Hayes shoots and rebounds, [etc.]. 1987Basketball Monthly Sept. 11/2 That meant two new Americans, to replace role players Danny Williams and Lawrence Held who spent the second half of last season coming off the bench to sub Spald..Irish and Cunningham. 1996Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 25 Nov. (Indiana High School Basketball Suppl.) 2/1 Wanted: Role players to rebound and defend. Must be able to tolerate floor burns and black eyes and wade through elbows. Experience preferred but not required. 2000Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 28 May A faded role player who could only muster four league appearances in the previous season.
2. A player of role-playing games.
1987Guardian 7 Oct. 27/4 Games Day '87 isn't just for role players: there will be demonstration wargames, competitions, [etc.]. 1989GM Nov. 42/1 Roleplayers, science fiction buffs and authors meet in a hot, steamy pub. 1995J. Miller Voxpop i. 26 Groups of role-players meet up through putting ads in the shops. 2000Hull Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 26 Oct. Accusations of occult practices have been made against the Fools and Heroes organisation in the USA where a young role-player died during a game. |