upstage

2 definitions found

upstage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  upstage
      adv 1: at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were
             directed to move upstage" [ant: downstage]
      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, upstage]
      n 1: the rear part of the stage
      v 1: treat snobbishly, put in one's place
      2: move upstage, forcing the other actors 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"

upstage - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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