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extemporaneous; extemporary; impromptu; makeshift (The group huddled in 20 huge military tents to keep warm against the winter chill while musicians performed on a makeshift stage and opposition lawmakers paid periodic visits to boost morale. // "We've just had enough. We're sick of this," said Alexander Yabchenko, a 33-year-old oncologist from Lviv in western Ukraine, who had travelled to Kiev to take part in the protests and was now offering medical help to those injured in the clashes at a makeshift medical centre inside the town hall. 4uzhoj); offhand; extempore; improvised; off-the-cuff; horseback; ad-lib; off the top of one's head; on-the-fly (Alex Lilo); ad hoc (Vadim Rouminsky); ad lib; off the cuff; offhanded; rough-and-tumble; jury-rigged (jury-rigged classrooms in gymnasiums Taras); make shift (make-shift monument-импровизированн¦й монумент andreon); rough and ready (Stregoy); unscripted (Scorrific); jerry-rigged (об устройстве Баян); candid (Vadim Rouminsky); soapbox (о речи); unpremeditated |
| ed. |
mock (Taras) |
| inf. |
ad-lib (о песне, выступлении и т.п.); makeshift (из подручных средств: arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed Val_Ships) |
| Makarov. |
out of the top of one's head; rough-and-tumble; spur-of-the-moment (о речи и т.п.) |
| mil., tech. |
hasty; extemporized |
| obs. |
improvisate |
| slang |
mad; jitney (bus) |
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extemporize; fake; hit off; fantasy; extemporise; phantasy; strike off; adlib (AlexP73); improvise; act on a hunch (ad_notam); speak impromptu (VLZ_58); make it up as one goes along (VLZ_58); think on one's feet (VLZ_58); take it as it comes (VLZ_58); speak off the cuff (VLZ_58); speak off the top of one's head (VLZ_58); busk it (VLZ_58); ride (о джазе); get creative (Taras); ad lib |
| amer., slang |
wing it |
| fig. |
play by ear (Andrey Truhachev) |
| idiom. |
make up as goes along (None of us really knew how to play the game, so we just made it up as we went along. VLZ_58); play by the ear (george serebryakov) |
| inf. |
ad-lib; wing (winging Eugenev); freestyle (глагол) Lily Snape); rift (No direct quotes here, just rifting. joyand); play something by ear (to do something without special preparation: He decided to remain calm and play it by ear. Snowklkl) |
| Makarov. |
strike; ad-lib a joke; do an improvisation; improvise on |
| Makarov., inf., lat. |
ad-lib (обыкн на сцене или по радио) |
| Makarov., lat. |
ad-librium (обыкн на сцене или по радио) |
| mus., amer. |
ride (в джазе) |
| mus., jarg. |
jam (в джазе) |
| mus., Makarov. |
vamp (особ. аккомпанемент) |
| obs. |
improvisate |
| slang |
ad lib (в разговоре, чтении написанного текста или музыкальном исполнении); ad-lib (в разговоре, чтении написанного текста или музыкальном исполнении); wing it (в любой области) |
| theatre., Makarov. |
fake a line |
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ad-libbed (Alex Nord); on the fly (Alex Lilo); by the seat of pants (suburbian) |
| ed. |
on the spot (RD3QG) |
| slang |
off the cuff |
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ad lib |
| inf. |
ad-lib |
| inf., lat. |
ad libitum |
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extemporize; improvise |
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off the cuff |
