a signal to a performer to begin a specific speech or action
a signal or hint prompting action
something serving a comparable purpose; a hint
in psychology, a feature of something that determines the way in which it is perceived
a facility in video or audio equipment for feeding a recording through at high speed and picking it up at a preselected point
on cue
at exactly the right time
Jack arrived right on cue, just as we were about to serve dinner
[prob from qu, abbr of Latin quando when, used as a direction in actors’ copies of plays]