1. games A long tapered rod with a leather tip used to strike the cue ball in billiards and pool.
2. games A long stick with a concave attachment at one end for shoving disks in shuffleboard.
3. A queue of hair.
4. A line of waiting people or vehicles; a queue.
5. games to strike with a cue.
6. to braid or twist (hair) into a queue.
7. to form a line or queue.
8. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect.
9. A reminder or prompting.
10. A hint or suggestion.
11. music an extract from the music for another part printed, usually in smaller notes, within a performer's part as a signal to enter after a long rest.
12. music A gesture by a conductor signaling the entrance of a performer or part.
13. psychology A stimulus, either consciously or unconsciously perceived, that elicits or signals a type of behavior.
14. archaic one's assigned role or function.
15. archaic A mood; a disposition.
16. to give a cue to; signal or prompt.
17. to insert into the sequence of a performance: cued the lights for the monologue scene.
18. to position (an audio or video recording) in readiness for playing: cue up a record on the turntable.
19. cue in to give information or instructions to, as to a latecomer.
20. the letter q.

1. an action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
2. the name of the latin script letter Q/q.
3. A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for latin quadrans farthing) in the buttery books.
4. the act of giving someone a cue signal.
5. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in various games.
6. the act of taking aim on the cue ball with the cue and hitting it.

1. the tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
2. the last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
3. A hint or intimation.
4. the part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
5. humor; temper of mind.
6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
7. A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
8. to form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

1. to tie into a cue or tail.
2. the tail; something hanging down like a tail, as the long curl of a wig or a long roll or plait of hair. in this sense also queue. see pigtail.
3. A number of persons ranged in a line, awaiting their turn to be served, as at a bank or a ticket-office. in this sense also queue.
4. Theat, words which when spoken at the end of a speech in the course of a play are the signal for an answering speech, or for the entrance of another actor, etc.
5. in music, a fragment of some other part printed in small notes, at the end of a long rest or silence occurring in the part of a voice or an instrument, to assist the singer or player in beginning promptly and correctly.
6. hence— A hint; an intimation; a guiding suggestion.
7. the part which one is to play; a course of action prescribed, or made necessary by circumstances.
8. humor; turn or temper of mind.
9. A straight tapering rod tipped with a small soft pad, used to strike the balls in billiards, bagatelle, and similar games.
10. A support for a lance; a lance-rest.
11. the name of the letter Q, q.
12. A farthing; a half-farthing.
13. A farthing's worth; the quantity bought with a farthing, as a small quantity of bread or beer.

1. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned
2. sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards
3. a stimulus that provides information about what to do
4. an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
5. evidence that helps to solve a problem