ad-lib
ad-lib
also ad libWord forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense ad-libs , present participle ad-libbing , past tense, past participle ad-libbed
1. verb
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. [VERB noun]
He's good at ad-libbing his way out of trouble. [VERB noun]
He is rather disjointed when he ad-libs. [VERB]
...ad-libbed phrases. [VERB-ed]
2. countable noun
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.
