star it

verb

To appear as a star actor, especially on a provincial tour.

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Meanings

verbstar it (third-person singular simple present stars it, present participle starring it, simple past and past participle starred it)

present singular third person stars it · participle present starring it · participle past starred it · past starred it

  1. archaicTo appear as a star actor, especially on a provincial tour.

    […] after a brilliant, but unprofitable career of provincial and minor management, he starred it through the country […]

    1833, Robert Dyer, Nine Years of an Actor's Life, page 52
    1 more example

    Grimaldi had now become the great popular actor, and when leisure permitted, he starred it, as other favourites did, at country theatres; […]

    1838, The Athenaeum, page 115
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