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What (who) is ad-lib - definition

LATIN EXPRESSION FOR "AT ONE'S PLEASURE"

Ad lib; Ad-lib; Ad-libs; Ad Lib; A piacere; Off-the-cuff; Bene placito; Ad libbing; Ad-libbing; Ad-libbed; Off the Cuff; Pause ad libitum; Ad libidem; Ad-Libs; Ad lib.

ad-lib

also ad lib (ad-libs, ad-libbing, ad-libbed)

1.

If you ad-lib something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.

He began comically ad-libbing a script...

He's good at ad-libbing his way out of trouble...

He is rather disjointed when he ad-libs.

...ad-libbed phrases.

= improvise

VERB: V n, V way prep, V, V-ed

2.

An ad-lib is something which is said without having been planned or written beforehand.

Every time I fluffed a line Lenny got me out of trouble with a brilliant ad-lib.

= improvisation

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Ad lib is also an adverb.

I spoke from the pulpit ad lib.

ADV: ADV after v

ad-lib

¦ verb (ad-libs, ad-libbing, ad-libbed) speak or perform in public without preparing in advance.

¦ adverb & adjective

1. spoken without advance preparation.

2. Music with free rhythm and expression.

3. as much and as often as desired.

¦ noun an ad-lib remark or speech.

Origin

C19: abbrev. of ad libitum.

Ad-Libs

Ad-Libs is an improvisational comedy troupe based in Dallas, Texas. Combining improvisation along with video segments, Ad-Libs was conceived by Phil Larsson in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-Libs

Wikipedia

Ad libitum

In music and other performing arts, the phrase ad libitum (; from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.

The roughly synonymous phrase a bene placito ('in accordance with [one's] good pleasure') is less common but, in its Italian form a piacere, has entered the musical lingua franca (see below).

The phrase "at liberty" is often associated mnemonically (because of the alliteration of the lib- syllable), although it is not the translation (there is no cognation between libitum and liber). Libido is the etymologically closer cognate known in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad libitum

Examples of use of ad-lib

1. Then there was this amazing ad–lib speech, which was clearly not ad lib at all!

2. When Charles Clarke bothered to ad–lib midweek they clapped.

3. "No one could ad lib like Peter," said veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters.

4. I thought÷ "What have I gotten myself into"? This man can ad–lib better than I can write.

5. Mr Simon said his monologue was "a vaguely planned ad lib" inspired by his irritation with Mr Cameron‘s video blog.