Meanings of ad-lib in English

You said yourself that you're trying to ad-lib your way out.

Give him one cue, and he'd ad-lib the whole play.

Being able to ad-lib is actually what it is.

As every move they make will be broad cast on live television ad-lib humor is out.

They do not use a script but ad-lib everything, using their own voices to portray the characters.

You can just ad-lib your responses.

That gesture encouraged her to ad-lib.

I just threw the ad-lib in.

He's forced to ad-lib.

The people must ad-lib.

CTE: Because animation is recorded and then locked into the characters, the producers allow the comics to ad-lib a little bit.

Rather than announcing the names of the records, however, the half-cut engineer started to ad-lib, reeling off funny stories and even singing to himself.

Pal, he thought, this could be the biggest role you ever played; just pick up your cues and ad-lib the hell out of it.

In those days, when Sinn Fein politicians could be seen but not heard on television and radio, this audaciously apt ad-lib brought the house down.

The New Yorker, October 31, 1970 P. 36 Talk story about and interview with radio ad-lib men, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.

He has also ad-libbed new material to many of his compositions.