The infinitive form of this intransitive verb is "to actor". In a scene where an actor is actoring, that person's focus on winning an award is what comes through to the audience, rather than the character that the actor is supposed to be playing. Actoring most often happens in an emotional scene full of tears, during a monologue, or while the actor is staring into space contemplatively and wistfully, but actoring can be done in almost any scene that involves a long close-up shot of the thespian's face. Most actors will actor at most once or twice during the entire run of a television show or in a single movie. But some people, such as Nicolas Cage, have a special talent for actoring.
Ppphhhh. He's actoring right now. I guess he wants an Oscar nomination. So much for the suspension of disbelief.
by TheRealSteveSnackman June 18, 2025
Get the actoringmug. Someone who does OnlyHeatsinks. They're a PC nerd who posts war crimes they commit on pcs on social media, like sticking their HDMI or DisplayPort cable into the motherboard of their Ryzen 4070 PC.
Guy 1: "Look at that genius over there! (/s)"
Guy 2: "What about him?"
Guy 1: "He recently uploaded a picture of his new PC onto PCMR. He plugged his HDMI cable into his motherboard, not his GPU!"
Guy 2: "What a fucking OnlyHeatsinks actor!"
Guy 2: "What about him?"
Guy 1: "He recently uploaded a picture of his new PC onto PCMR. He plugged his HDMI cable into his motherboard, not his GPU!"
Guy 2: "What a fucking OnlyHeatsinks actor!"
by Born to ride Donald J. Trump May 1, 2025
Get the OnlyHeatsinks actormug. A Nigerian Pidgin phrase meaning “the hero never dies.” Used to describe someone who always survives, escapes trouble, or seems impossible to defeat — like the main character in a movie who can’t be killed off.
Example 1:
A: Wait, after all those cheating scandals he’s still married?
B: My guy, actor no dey die for film.
Example 2:
That striker missed five chances but still scored the winning goal. Actor no dey die for film.
A: Wait, after all those cheating scandals he’s still married?
B: My guy, actor no dey die for film.
Example 2:
That striker missed five chances but still scored the winning goal. Actor no dey die for film.
by _OAP September 13, 2025
Get the Actor no dey die for filmmug. Byword for "burden on society"
by I hate every single celebrity December 4, 2020
Get the Actormug. by Aam Nath Covid March 16, 2021
Get the Aami Actor Cobramug. Oh you’re in young actors theater? You mean with those creeps Calla, Gypsy, John, and that hot guy Josh? That’s lit fam.
by Humongous chungus November 16, 2019
Get the Young actors theatermug. The state in which an actor or female actor takes on radically different character roles in a variety of movies and/or television shows.
Michael Fassbender plays Magneto in the X-Men film franchise and a robot in Prometheus. This is what makes him a actor bender.
by Stellarspace July 31, 2016
Get the actor bendermug.