"role player" meaning in All languages combined

See role player on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: role players [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} role player (plural role players)
  1. Alternative form of roleplayer. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: roleplayer
    Sense id: en-role_player-en-noun-DjHTFMSi
  2. (basketball) A player who is not one of the best players on the team, but still makes a meaningful contribution. Related terms: romantic necrophiliac (english: Class II), necrophiliac fantasizer (english: Class III), tactile necrophiliac (english: Class IV), fetishistic necrophiliac (english: Class V), necromutilomaniac (english: Class VI), opportunistic necrophiliac (english: Class VII), regular necrophiliac (english: Class VIII), homicidal necrophiliac (english: Class IX), exclusive necrophiliac (english: Class X), necrosadist
    Sense id: en-role_player-en-noun-v-s5PGSA Categories (other): Basketball, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 63 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 77 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 68 29 Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  3. (psychiatry) One of the ten classifications of necrophilia based on the increasing severity of the disorder as defined by the American forensic psychologist Anil Aggrawal (Class I).
    Sense id: en-role_player-en-noun-RsGfm0Uh Categories (other): Psychiatry, Psychiatry Disambiguation of Psychiatry: 0 8 92 Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences

Inflected forms

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